A lorry driver has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck. Maurice Robinson, 25, admitted the charges at the Old Bailey in London this afternoon.
The 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex died as a result of lack of oxygen and overheating, provisional investigations showed, reports the Mirror.
Their bodies were found in a trailer on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex on October 23. The bodies of eight females and 31 males were discovered in the trailer attached to a cab at the site.
They were found shortly after the container arrived in Purfleet on a ferry from Zeebrugge, Belgium.Among the men, women and children were 10 teenagers, two of them