Two young children whose parents died holding hands as they were suffocated in the trailer of a lorry still look at their photo every day, a court has heard.
Harrowing statements were read to the Old Bailey today from families of the migrants who died as they were smuggled in a container from Belgium to Essex.
Four people-smugglers were convicted last month of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated in the back of the airtight lorry.
The victims, aged between 15 and 44, were being shipped to Purfleet in Essex from Belgium on October 23 2019. As the three-day sentencing hearing began today, statements from the bereaved families were read to the court.
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