Pham Thi Tra My's brother said the family had arranged for £30,000 to be paid to smugglers At least six of the 39 people found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex may have been from Vietnam. The BBC knows of six Vietnamese families who fear their relatives are among the victims. They include Pham Thi Tra My,...
The bodies were discovered in the early hours of Wednesday Two people have been arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex. The man and woman, both 38, from Warrington, Cheshire, were also held on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic. The BBC has spoken to the families of three...
The bodies were found in a lorry trailer in the early hours of Wednesday Post-mortem examinations are beginning of the 39 people who were found dead in a lorry container in Essex. How are people identified in such circumstances? The first step is to look for circumstantial evidence, says Dr Noemi Procopio, a lecturer in forensic science...
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,...
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...
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...
