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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"For ordinary people like you and me," a Palace official said to me recently, "there's always death and taxes. For them" - he meant the royals themselves - "there's death, taxes and the media." As the dust settles on the most revealing royal interviews since Princess Diana spoke to the BBC in 1995, this is still...
Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images Can you spot the missing photo? The Internet has. In the past, eagle eyed royals fans have spotted an array of family photos on a table in Buckingham Palace, including when Queen Elizabeth II met with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in July. The framed snaps can typically be seen in the background of...
