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Driver of lorry with 39 migrants dead inside 'blind to the risks' of people smuggling

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A lorry driver who discovered the bodies of 39 migrants in the back of his trailer had been "blind to the risks" of people smuggling, a court has heard.

The Vietnamese victims, aged between 15 and 44, had suffocated in the sealed container as it was shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Kent in October 2019.

Maurice Robinson, 26, was left in shock after he opened the doors and found they were all dead, the Old Bailey was told. His boss and ringleader in the operation Ronan Hughes, 41, had told him to give them air quickly after collecting the trailer from the docks.

Robinson, who had called Hughes before 999, replied: "I can't, they are f ****  dead." Robinson, of Craigavon, and Hughes, of Armagh, had pleaded guilty to the manslaughters

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