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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Revealed: 39 Chinese migrants found in death trap lorry had travelled 5,000 miles and may have been locked in airless, freezing trailer for DAYS
2019-10-25
[Daily Mail, where Amreica gets its news]
  • Maurice 'Mo' Robinson, 25, held on suspicion of murdering 39 Chinese nationals frozen inside lorry in Essex

  • Police have raided his Armagh home - and the home he shared with his parents - who have flown to England

  • Robinson travelled by ferry from Dublin to Holyhead on Saturday and was waiting for the container yesterday

  • He moved lorry to a nearby industrial estate to check his paperwork and found the 31 men and 8 women dead

  • Friend told MailOnline: 'Mo is from the nicest family - he wouldn't have known those people were in the back'

  • Police in Belgium say container arrived at Zeebrugge on Tuesday before ferry to Purfleet, Essex, hours later

  • Bodies are being moved from Tilbury docks to the mortuary in Chelmsford for post-mortem examinations

  • Police probing whether the victims were being trafficked by criminal gangs in the UK who sell them as slaves to work in nail bars, brothels, massage parlours and restaurants
SMUGGLERS PUT ON 'MINI BUS SERVICE' TO DEAL WITH DEMAND IN PURFLEET

Last night it was revealed that the Thames port where the migrants were found 'comes alive at night' with new arrivals.

A former security guard told The Times that smuggling is so well organised in the area that mini buses meet the migrants and take them away.

Gary Lilley had previously worked at the port for around six weeks as a security guard.

He held the position seven years ago and said he once found out that 15-passports from foreigners had been dumped in a local lay-by.

He said: 'The port comes alive at around 2am. I've seen groups of migrants walking out the front door of the port with carrier bags.

'When there's a group of them a few security guards on minimum wage aren't going to stop them. They are all ages, babes in arms and five-year-old girls.

'Minibuses wait there at night for them to arrive. Last summer during the heatwave I gave water bottles to two five-year-old girls as they looked desperate.'

The 61-year-old said he had been upset when he learnt about the 39 deaths, but said that he hadn't been surprised by the tragedy.

He said he previously found some Albanian passports. He notified police, but he claims they hadn't been interested in them, so he threw them in the bin.

He also claimed that British authorities 'didn't know' what to do with those coming in illegally from other countries.


Vile trade of the snakeheads: As police investigate how 39 Chinese migrants died in a lorry, PAUL BRACCHI reveals how brutal criminal gangs exploit the country's poor, shipping them across the world to work as slave labour

[Daily Mail] All those who died came from Fujian province in south-eastern China, situated opposite the island of Taiwan.

Fujian is also the ‘home’ of the notorious Snakeheads, an off-shoot of the Triads.

The Snakeheads, who specialise in people smuggling, are so-called because those who wish to get out of China illegally need guidance as they ‘twist and turn’ to find ways around border controls — ‘a sophisticated travel service in human misery,’ they have been labelled.

Back in the 1990s, their activities were focused on Hong Kong, providing black market labour mostly to the kitchens of restaurants run by Hong Kong’s long-established Chinese community.

In the intervening years, the Snakeheads have branched out supplying young women, who are often kidnapped and forced into the sex trade in Britain.
Posted by:Skidmark

#5  "Huh, don't hear that odd thumping coming from the rear axle anymore. Must have worked itself out."


bet that smelled good

One of the benefits of using the refrigerated trailer is no spoilage.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-10-25 18:52  

#4  bet that smelled good
Posted by: chris   2019-10-25 17:39  

#3  The cannibals in Sweden wanted Chinese takeout what is the problem?
Posted by: Angens Turkeyneck2026   2019-10-25 10:08  

#2  Look at the bright side. 39 less Triad recruits.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-10-25 09:53  

#1  The British establishment will ignore any law that enriches them at the British peoples expense.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-10-25 03:00  

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