The lorry in which bodies of 39 Vietnamese people were found in October 2019 (Photo: braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk)Hanoi (VNA) – Gheorghe Nica, 43, accused ofmanslaughter over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies werediscovered in the back of a lorry near London, the UK, last year, pleadedguilty to an immigration offence on October 7.
At London's Old Bailey court, theBritish-Romanian dual national admitted an offence of conspiracy to assistunlawful immigration.
He is still charged with 39 counts ofmanslaughter, along with Eamonn Harrison, 23, from Northern Ireland.
Two other men, Ronan Hughes (41, from Ireland)and Maurice Robinson (26, from Northern Ireland), are also accused ofimmigration offences.
Robinson, who drove the truck, pleaded guilty to39 counts of manslaughter at a trial in April. He had previously admittedconspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
Meanwhile, Hughes pleaded guilty to manslaughteron August 28.
On October 23 last year, bodies of the 39Vietnamese victims were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry at anindustrial estate in Grays in Essex, near London.
Autopsies concluded that the provisional causeof death of the victims was a combination of hypoxia, or oxygen deprivation,and hyperthermia, or overheating, in an enclosed space./.
VNA
