In 2019, bodies of 39 Vietnamese were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry at an industrial estate in Grays in Essex, near London. (Photo: Reuters/VNA)Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 29, admitted conspiring to assistunlawful immigration in 2020 and was sentenced to three years in jail. He made 83,552GBP from crime but prosecutor Johnathan Polnay said just 3,000 GBP wasavailable for confiscation. The fund will be used to compensate the victims’families for funeral expenses and bereavement.
Hanga collected a number of migrants from a drop-offpoint in Essex and drove them to a safe house in Dulwich, south-east London, afew weeks before the tragedy.
In his sentencing, judge Justice Sweeney had noted Hangahad shown "genuine remorse.”
On October 23, 2019, bodies of 39 Vietnamese werediscovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry at an industrial estate in Graysin Essex, near London, not far from the ferry terminal where the truck hadarrived from Belgium.
Autopsies concluded that the provisional cause of deathof the victims was a combination of hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation, andhyperthermia, or overheating, in an enclosed space.
Four people-smugglers were sentenced by the Old BaileyCourt in London to a combined 78 years in jail for 39 counts of manslaughterand a people-smuggling conspiracy on January 22 this year./.
VNA
