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Essex lorry deaths: Dunkirk migrants ‘all scared of lorries’

People smugglers in northern France charge up to €10,000 (£8,640; $11,100) per person for passage to the UK Puythouck camp, in the woods near Dunkirk, is a place where you queue for everything, while waiting for only one thing: the chance to hide inside a lorry bound for the UK. Meanwhile, in this vast open-air waiting room,...

Essex lorry deaths: Channel 4 postpones Smuggled documentary

Channel 4's Smuggled followed members of the public as they tried to evade border checks Channel 4 has postponed the broadcast of a new documentary after 39 bodies were discovered in a lorry in Essex. Smuggled was set to follow eight members of the public as they tried to enter the UK from Europe by evading border...

Essex lorry deaths: 39 found dead were Chinese nationals

The 39 people found dead in a refrigerated trailer in Essex were Chinese nationals. Police have been granted an extra 24 hours to question lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, on suspicion of murdering the eight women and 31 men. Three properties in Northern Ireland have been raided and the National Crime Agency is working to establish if...

Essex lorry deaths: What security is at UK’s ports?

Police are working to identify the bodies of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex. It is thought the vehicle came into the UK from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, a known route for people smuggling. Why are some ports unmanned? The lorry container in which the bodies were discovered arrived in the UK through the port of Purfleet,...

Essex lorry deaths: How are lorries checked for concealed migrants?

The bodies were discovered in the back of a lorry on the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays on Wednesday As police continue to investigate the deaths of 39 Chinese nationals found in a lorry container in Essex, questions have been raised about how trailers arrive in the UK and what checks border officials carry out to...

Essex lorry deaths, Brexit and finding love

The Essex lorry deaths dominate the front page of all of the newspapers on Thursday. Thirty nine bodies were found in a container which had arrived in Purfleet, on the River Thames, from Zeebrugge, Belgium. The lorry driver, named locally as Mo Robinson, 25, from Portadown, County Armagh, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Wednesday. As of...

Essex lorry deaths: ‘How I nearly suffocated in the back of a lorry’

Jawad Amiri said news of the 39 found dead in a lorry in Essex brought back vivid memories When 39 Chinese nationals were found dead in the back of a lorry in Essex, Jawad Amiri remembered vividly how he nearly suffocated as he was smuggled into the UK. The 28-year-old from Afghanistan was one of 15 people...

Essex lorry deaths latest and No 10 denies Brexit split

  Police question driver over Essex lorry deaths Investigations continue over the grim discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated container near an Essex port. As police question a lorry driver - named locally as Mo Robinson - on suspicion of murder, the National Crime Agency (NCA) says its officers are trying to identify any "organised crime groups who...

Essex lorry deaths: 39 bodies found in refrigerated trailer

The bodies of 39 people have been found in a lorry trailer in Essex. The vehicle was found shortly before 01:40 BST at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, police said. Essex Police said the trailer has been moved to a secure location where the bodies of those inside - a teenager and 38 adults - can be...

Essex lorry deaths: Tricky task of catching the people smugglers

Dover is the single largest site for people smuggling operations, police say Since the Calais migrant camps were shut three years ago and security measures were increased at Dover and the Channel Tunnel, people smugglers have increasingly moved to other routes. Asked which ports are being used, the National Crime Agency told me: "All of them." More dangerous...