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this manner and to try to identify people, it is precisely this reason.
“It is the dignity – it takes time to put into place but it must run through everything we do and the recovery of those victims, in which order we are going to recover them, how we recover them.
Risks
“We have to gain so much information to make sure we don’t miss anything. All of that takes time – and it will continue, unfortunately, to take time.”
Police yesterday told how they were using Interpol Disaster Victim
Identification Standards to identify the dead and have recovered over 500 exhibits, including mobile phones.
DCI Pasmore also admitted he fears another tragedy could happen as human traffickers are taking increasing risks.
He said: “We know we have people coming into the country being trafficked or brought in as asylum seekers.
“Criminals, murderers, are taking more and more chances with these vulnerable people. It could well happen again.”
Bloody handprints, caused when the victims tried desperately to get out, were reportedly found on the inside of the container doors. It had crossed the Channel on a cargo ferry from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet on the Thames.
Reports in Vietnam – where the average wage is around £150 a month and Snakehead gangs promise earnings of £2,000 a month here – say the migrants were previously been held in a warehouse in France before being moved to Belgium.
In addition to the 39 manslaughter charges, lorry driver Robinson, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland, is accused of conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering. He will face Chelmsford magistrates on Monday.
Joanne Maher, 38, who is the registered owner of the Scania lorry cab at the centre of the investigation, and husband Thomas Maher, 48, of Warrington, were still being held last night on suspicion of manslaughter and people trafficking.
And a 48- year- old man from Northern Ireland, arrested at Stansted Airport on suspicion of people trafficking and manslaughter, was also still being quizzed.