Smuggler who drove lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants died earned £100,000 from trafficking

Human trafficker Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 26, (pictured) who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he made trafficking people on refurbishing his girlfriend’s hair salon, a court heard today A human trafficker who drove a lorry on which 39 Vietnamese migrants suffered agonising deaths used some of £100,000 he … Read more

‘People-smuggling gang caught on camera trafficking migrants into UK two weeks before Essex tragedy’

Prosecutors today showed jurors what they claimed was footage of a people-smuggling gang trafficking migrants into the UK two weeks before 39 Vietnamese victims suffocated to death in a lorry on the same route. Gheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison are accused of the manslaughter of the group, who died in a trailer transported from Zeebrugge … Read more

People smuggler caught trafficking two Vietnamese migrants into UK through Channel Tunnel

People smuggler caught trafficking two Vietnamese migrants into UK through Channel Tunnel in boot of his car is jailed for more than two years Gavin Charters, 40, was stopped at the Channel Tunnel by Border Force Officers found two Vietnamese migrants in his boot and arrested him He absconded from bail but was found following … Read more

SUE REID on the deadly English Channel trade of human trafficking

He poses proudly for his picture outside the magnificent town hall in the French port of Calais. Wearing a black bomber jacket bearing the distinctive insignia of the Chicago Bulls basketball team and with a chunky watch on his left wrist, this is the man at the centre of a people-smuggling gang making millions fleecing … Read more

French and Belgian police arrest 26 suspects in Europe-wide crackdown on human trafficking

French and Belgian police arrest 26 suspects in Europe-wide crackdown on human trafficking triggered by deaths of 39 migrants in a lorry in Essex By Joe Middleton For Mailonline Published: 15:50 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 16:17 BST, 27 May 2020 Police in France and Belgium have arrested 26 suspects as part of an … Read more

Irish pair are charged with human trafficking after 10 migrants found in lorry in Belgium 

Irish pair are charged with human trafficking after 10 migrants including two children are found inside lorry carrying tyres in Belgium Two Irish men charged with suspected human trafficking of 10 Asian migrants Eight adults and two children were found in back of lorry near Ghent in Belgium NCA officers also conducted a raid in … Read more