UK convicts suspect in case of 39 Vietnamese people killed in truck

Damian, a Romanian citizen, admitted he was waiting at the pick-up point to take the lorries to London when the heartbreaking incident happened. This person also said that he had allowed the use of his car in similar cases before.

On October 23, 2019, British police found 39 bodies in a refrigerated truck in Grays industrial area, county Essex, northeast of London. The car was brought from Belgium to the UK by ferry from the night of October 22, 2019. British police concluded that 39 Vietnamese victims died in container due to lack of oxygen and overheating.

Dragos Stefan Damian was convicted for his involvement in the death of 39 Vietnamese people in 2019. Photo: BBC.

When the victims’ bodies were discovered, Damian said he ran away because he was scared. However, the suspect was arrested in Milan, Italy and extradited to the UK in September 2021. Damian was found guilty in November of the same year.

The prosecution alleges that Damian was part of a “complex, long-term and highly profitable plot” to bring illegal immigrants to the UK in the back of a lorry and had been involved in the scheme since May 2018. until October 2019.

“The defendant’s role was to authorize the use of his car to pick up immigrants in the UK, and at one point to drive himself to Collingwood Farm (where the immigrants were transported),” he said. prosecutor Jonathan Polnay said.

Previously, in January, a British court sentenced four suspects to between 13 years, 4 months and 27 years in prison for manslaughter and participating in the crime. trafficking. Meanwhile, the Belgian court also sentenced a Vietnamese man named Vo Van Hong (45 years old) for participating in this conspiracy.

According to Zing