A haulier has admitted the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found dead in the trailer of a lorry in Essex.Ronan Hughes, 40, is one of several men accused of being part of a people-smuggling ring linked to the tragedy last October.He admitted 39 charges of manslaughter at the Old Bailey in London on Friday.Prosecutors alleged Hughes, of Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, played a leading role by allowing his trailers and drivers to be used in human trafficking.The bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, shortly after the lorry arrived in Purfleet on a ferry in the early hours of October 23 last year.Among the men, women and children were 10 teenagers, two of them 15-year-old.
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