The 39 migrants found dead in a lorry container in Essex last year included some who had been part of a rumbled crossing just nine days earlier, a court heard.
Prosecutors say 20 Vietnamese men and women were discovered in a lorry on the French side of the Channel Tunnel on October 14.
Authorities took them away while alleged driver Christopher Kennedy, 24, was allowed to continue to Kent. Jurors heard “at least two” members of this group were then found among the 28 men, eight women and three children found dead in a lorry in Purfleet, Essex, on October 23.
Prosecutor Bill Emlyn Jones said: “You may think this provides a powerful link between the activities of the 14th and then the fatal episode. “We suggest these particular victims had
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