Four people-smugglers have been jailed for 78 years for the killings of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in an airtight lorry trailer that became a 40C "tomb".
Ringleaders Gheorghe Nica, 43, and Ronan Hughes, 41, and drivers Maurice Robinson, 26, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, were sentenced along with three other gang members on Friday.
Nica was given 27 years, Hughes was handed 20 years in prison, Harrison was sentenced to 18 years, and Robinson was jailed for 13 years and four months - all for 39 counts of manslaughter and a people-smuggling conspiracy.
Three others were jailed for a total of 14 years for lesser offences. Mr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody,
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