TRAGIC VIETNAMESE ARE TRAFFICKED
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Trailer where the 39 bodies were found Families in 25 of the my area decide which of them should Essex victims were from. As we speak, be sent to the UK before they all raise he receives a chilling call, threatening money to pay traffickers. violence if he continues to talk about
“Those that died last week are the trafficking network. saddled with huge debts and the UK Yards away from us is the home of for them was the only way out.” grieving relatives of Essex lorry victim
He was deported in late 2017, and Le Van Ha, 30. his family are still enjoying the spoils The family reveal how Le Van Ha of his time in Britain, living in their was taken from Ha Tinh to Saigon, new brick house. But Nguyen is still in then Malaysia, Turkey, Greece and
A LORRY driver has appeared in court charged with 39 counts of manslaughter.
Maurice “Mo” Robinson, 25, was also charged with conspiracy to traffic, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration, acquiring criminal property and concealing criminal property.
Appearing by videolink at Chelmsford magistrates court, Robinson spoke only to give his name and his address in Co
France before he was placed in the refrigerated trailer.
Another victim, Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, travelled through Russia in 2017, then Ukraine, Germany and France before boarding the lorry.
Everyone in the hamlet seems to know someone who has made the journey using what they call “the line”.
Walking through the streets, it is clear why families send loved ones on the perilous journey to the UK.
Throughout the neighbourhood are two and three-storey houses, built within the last decade with money
Armagh, Northern Ireland. He will appear at the Old Bailey on November 25.
Another man wanted in connection with the investigation was arrested at Dublin port on Saturday.
A man and woman, both 38, who were arrested in Cheshire on Friday, and a 46-year-old man from Northern Ireland have all been released on bail.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has
LUXURY earned overseas. Some are next to the owners’ original rickety homes.
Nguyen Dinh Sat mourns his son Nguyen Dinh Tu in the shadow of the palatial home he had built.
Last year, after local farming collapsed, 26-year-old Dinh Tu travelled to Romania, working illegally in a factory for £400 per month.
That money failed to cover the loan he had taken out to build his house and the debts mounted as his wife Hoang Thi Thuong struggled to feed their one-year-old daughter.
He hoped a move to the UK would revealed that extra UK immigration officers will be deployed at Zeebrugge in Belgium after the Essex lorry tragedy.
She told the Commons there would be an international response to the “appalling” incident.
She also said the UK’s policy on the reunification of refugee families would form part of the next stage of Brexit negotiations with the EU.
GRIEF
CHARGE Robinson in court
Our Chris & Nguyen Dinh Sat
Home of Dinh Tu give him the income he needed, and so his family paid £11,000 to smugglers. His father tells me the gang had trafficked his son from Vietnam to Romania, Germany and France before sending him to his death in the trailer.
It was the traffickers who broke the news of his son’s death to 70-year-old Dinh Sat.
Sitting next to a shrine dedicated to his son in the house where he had planned to raise his family, Dinh Sat tells me: “He is gone now. There is nothing left of him. He died.”
Officials here are collecting DNA from relatives to identify victims, but families want loved one’s bodies back.
Dinh Sat says: “He had a mountain of debt on the house and was frightened the bank would take it and our land, that is why he went to Europe.
“Never did I think he would be put at such grave risk. Not only have I lost my son, but we could lose everything my family has worked so hard for over the generations.”