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Two men convicted in connection with deaths of migrants in Essex

Dec 21, 2020 13:37
By Shannonside News
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Two men convicted in connection with deaths of migrants in Essex

Two men, including a Northern Irish man, have been convicted in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a

Two men, including a Northern Irish man, have been convicted in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a lorry in Essex.

The Old Bailey heard they suffocated in the container after crossing last year from Belgium to England.

Of the four defendants, so far two have been found guilty of manslaughter - lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, who's 24 and from Newry in County Down, and 43 year-old Gheorghe Nica from Basildon in Essex.

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