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Mass in a Vietnamese church in London for the 39 dead migrants. Stock Photography.
Four people are sentenced to prison in Vietnam for organizing the trip that ended with 39 people found dead in a truck outside London last year.
They are sentenced to between two and a half and seven and a half years for having organized an illegal emigration, state media report.
Nguyen Dinh Gia, who lost his 20-year-old son in the tragedy, does not believe the defendant should be jailed.
– The people involved were just trying to help, he says.
– He was an adult and made an independent decision and joined the trip voluntarily, with the aim of having a better life, earning money to alleviate our poverty.
The dead were found in the truck’s cold room on October 23 in Grays, Essex, after arriving by ferry from Belgium’s Zeebrygge. Several people have been arrested and brought to justice in the UK, France and Belgium, including the truck driver.
