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Two human traffickers were found guilty in the case of 39 Vietnamese nationals found dead in a truck trailer in England late last year, The Guardian reports. Gheorghe Nica, 43, with dual Romanian and British citizenship, and Eamonn Harrison, a 24-year-old Northern Irishman, were found guilty of killing 39 men, women and children of Vietnamese descent. whose bodies were discovered in a container in October 2019. At the same time, the two are charged with conspiracy to aid illegal immigration and risk of life imprisonment.
Nica, who coordinated the operation, admitted in court that he participated in the illegal transport in the first two races, on October 11 and 18, 2019, but insists that in the third, which resulted in the death of the Vietnamese, he did not did. He was involved and did not know there were people in the container, but he thought it was a cigarette transport.
Police said the two leaders, Gheorghe Nica and Ronan Hudges, 41, who pleaded guilty before the trial began, were motivated by “outright greed” when they decided to ignore the obvious risks and put the twice as many people as needed to increase their profits in an operation that compensated them with hundreds of thousands of pounds for each “batch” of migrants.
Each of the people in the truck had paid between £ 10,000 and £ 13,000 to be transported from France to the UK.
Two other defendants, truck driver Christopher Kennedy and Valentin Calota, were also found guilty of trafficking Vietnamese immigrants from northern France to Britain. Kennedy and Calota did not participate in the transportation that killed 39 people, but they did participate in earlier transportation on the same route.
The verdict comes at the end of a trial that exposed for the first time a complex and highly profitable operation by which the Vietnamese were illegally brought to Britain for years.
In October 2019, thirty-nine people were found dead in an industrial park near London. The victims of the “terror truck” were 28 men, eight women and three children, Vietnamese citizens, between 15 and 44 years old. Before dying, they tried to call the Vietnamese emergency service for help.
According to the researchers, the temperature inside the container exceeded 38.5 degrees Celsius, resulting in the death of all the people in the truck from suffocation and hyperthermia or overheating.
Publisher: IC
