Popular Post rooster59 Posted January 22, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2021 Lengthy jail terms given to men involved in Vietnamese truck deaths Locals and relatives of Anna Bui Thi Nhung, one of the 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck near London on October, prepare bury her coffin during her funeral at a cemetery in Nghe An province, Vietnam December 1, 2019. REUTERS/Kham/Files LONDON (Reuters) - Four men were given long jail sentences on Friday for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and children who suffocated to death in a stifling, airtight shipping container in October 2019 as they were being smuggled into Britain. The discovery of so many dead people - two as young as 15 - in the back of the truck on an industrial estate to the east of London shocked Britain and Vietnam. It also shone a spotlight on the illicit global trade that sends the poor of Asia, Africa and the Middle East on perilous journeys to the West. As oxygen levels fell, some tried desperately to escape, but in vain. Others used mobile phones to say their last farewells to devastated relatives on the other side of the world. Judge Nigel Sweeney said they had suffered an "excruciating slow death" as he jailed seven men involved in the people smuggling gang for a total of 92 years at London's Old Bailey criminal court. He said it was a sophisticated, long-running, and profitable scheme which would have netted the gang hundreds of thousands of pounds. The four who admitted or were found guilty of manslaughter and immigration offences, were 41-year-old haulier Ronan Hughes from Northern Ireland, the leader of the plot who was jailed for 20 years, and Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 44, another major figure, who was sentenced to 27 years behind bars. Maurice Robinson, 26, the Northern Irish driver of the truck in which the bodies were found, was jailed for 13 years, while Eamonn Harrison, 24, also from the British province, who drove the container to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge from where the victims were taken to Britain, was given an 18-year sentence. Most of those who died were from Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces in north-central Vietnam, where poor job prospects, environmental disasters and the promise of financial reward abroad fuel migration. British police have released tributes from the relatives of those who had died, including the parents of soccer fan Nguyen Huy Hung, 15. "He always dreamt of going to the UK and he tried very hard to study at school as well as learning English for that purpose," they said. (Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by James Davey and Angus MacSwan) -- © Copyright Reuters 2021-01-23 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonray Posted January 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Good....let them rot 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tug Posted January 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Good let the scum rot or perhaps the other prisoners will take care of it 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jollyhangmon Posted January 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Couldn't agree more, let these monsters rot ... 71 victims found under similar circumstances in August '15, killed in Hungary but dumped the ride on the Autobahn in Austria just across the border ... 25 years for the masterminds by Hungarian court. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland_corpses_discovery 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chomper Higgot Posted January 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 23, 2021 Not quite enough punishment. This was a very profitable business, strip these people of their assets, homes and savings. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonray Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 40 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said: Not quite enough punishment. This was a very profitable business, strip these people of their assets, homes and savings. They'll be stripped of the "asses" for sure before too long unless they find protection... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiFelix Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Lets hope their long sentences will be served in an airtight container!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darksidedude Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Others used mobile phones to say their last farewells to devastated relatives on the other side of the world. <deleted> surely they could have informed authorities and got signals tracked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 26 minutes ago, Darksidedude said: Others used mobile phones to say their last farewells to devastated relatives on the other side of the world. <deleted> surely they could have informed authorities and got signals tracked Yes, I'd wondered about that. I suppose: 1) how tech savvy these people or their families in Vietnam were, 2) if they did try and start something how long would the process of getting someone in Vietnam to react, getting someone in the UK to react and actually tracking the phones take? If they were within a couple of hours of death then there wouldn't be the time. Either way it was an utterly tragic business, and the bastards responsible deserve a very long time in jail. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacovl46 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 5 hours ago, Darksidedude said: Others used mobile phones to say their last farewells to devastated relatives on the other side of the world. <deleted> surely they could have informed authorities and got signals tracked The question is whether these messages went through when they tried to send them. I suppose they didn’t and the messages were only discovered after their bodies were found. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soalbundy Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 11 hours ago, ThaiFelix said: Lets hope their long sentences will be served in an airtight container!! They will only do half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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