Thirty-nine bodies found in lorry in Essex I Times News
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- Published on Oct 22, 2019
- Thirty-nine bodies were found in a lorry container on an industrial estate in Essex.
Mo Robinson, 25, a self-employed haulier from Co Armagh in Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Detectives are working to piece together the movements of the container, which has Bulgarian number plates. The lorry is thought to have arrived in Holyhead from Ireland via Zeebrugge in Belgium on Saturday.
Police are working to identify the dead.
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I hope the paramedics and police officers get all the help they need after dealing with this
Obviously this port hasn't been given the same amount of security and it makes you wonder just how long it's been going on, and how many people have come in this way. These people have paid a heavy price for this and the people organising their transport will no doubt be counting the money without a second thought for these poor unfortunate dead migrants.
@Mlan doesnt bear thinking about, does it?
@Mlan doesnt bear thinking about does it? Hopefully they will tighten security up.
Terry Bennison makes u think about how many times this has happened before
I feel sorry for the driver to be honest. Imagine driving miles with all those bodys in your trailer then being arrested
JUST TO MAKE THIS CLEAR!!!! IAM A TRUCK DRIVER AND WHEN YOU PICK A CONTAINER OR A REFRIGERATED TRAILER UP OFF THE DOCKS IT IS SEALED AT THE BACK DOORS TO WHICH THE DRIVER CANNOT OPEN! IAM FAIRLY CONFIDENT THE DRIVER WOULDNT OF KNOWN WHAT WAS IN THE BACK SO TO MENTION HIS NAME IS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE THIS COULD RUIN HIS LIFE AND CAREER! AND FOR THE RECORD ITS NOT A CONTAINER ITS A FRIDGE TRAILER.
@Anne K Industrial estate road right outside the DHL chilled/frozen goods warehouse. Look on Google maps.
S. Bolme .. Don't think so, he is meant to have pulled into an industrial parking lot 25mins away from where he collected the trailer !?
@Anne K I really wonder about that too. Perhaps it was at the place where it was going to be delievered..?
Another person who does not understand that l was talking about the term 'container" Your response was purely backlash as' the truth hurts' Be quiet now.
Apparently the driver was allegedly captured on CCTV 30 mins before the horrifying "discovery" at the depot pulling over and opening the back as if to facilitate something or someone getting out. Some are alleging he discovered them - went into panic mode after realising they were all dead and Proceeded with the "delivery" and feigned shock at the depot. He is allegedly a member of a human trafficking gang based in Ireland. Cold storage freights are now used to thwart thermal scanners, another awful deadly tactic of traffickers that has Just resulted in 39 deaths.
He was released without charge he had no idea the fridge was sealed by customs so who really is guilty because the driver certainly isn't
Where did you get he was released from? What a plank!
words don't make someone innocent
I'm sure there are heaps working for customs & border which are involved in a lot of this trafficking business its not like they are as honest as they are made out to be, some extra cash will go a long way.
Some one in customs be in the shit .no way seal a lock not check .unless someone not doing there job or getting back hander .pretty hard not notice 39 people back of a lorry if you opened it .couldn't think any thing more awfull the police and emergency services all those involved to see and have to cope with.someone got to break the news to the families .tragic.
Terrible reporting, and irresponsible behaviour form the media
Lot's of Russian trolls and bots posting nasty provocative drivel in comments trying to skew the tone - which is very firmly one of an awful and dreadful tragedy.
Information is still emerging so not appropriate to comment too firmly. It would be very sad if that young man willingly participated in a trafficking scheme that ultimately resulted in those 39 deaths. Horrific.
damn, if only belgium was a safe country, these people woulnd't have had to flee the horrors of beglium and risk their life.
so they slander this guy internationally without a process?, Classic Times.
disgracefull journalism.
How stupid do you sound now!
goof verdinus .. journalism has always been disgraceful, nothing new here ... Anything for a fast buck that's MSM for you, what they want to print fast and quick first, facts and truth later ...
I think its wrong to show picture of the driver, most people who watch news only hear half a story. Meaning that his reputation been destroyed whenever or not he is innocent or guilty.
If he is innocent I would sue the media for defomation.
God help these poor people may they find peace ,god help the man he's got to live with this tragedy .
I know that guy from somewhere, he wonāt ever do anything, the drivers of the lorries donāt know what is inside the containers! it shouldnāt be his fault..
R.I.P to the 39 people.
Shame on the Media for naming the lorry driver before all the facts have been established. The driver is most likely a victim in this too, just doing his job.
The failure lies with government for underfunding border control. The deaths are by the hands of the smuggling gangs who prey on desperate people.
It sounds like they were going to be released at the side of the road before leaving the freight at the delivery depot by the trafficker(s), but when the people smuggler(s) opened the freight to let them out discovered they'd all passed away so went ahead with a charade of not knowing they were there and proceeded with the delivery and played ignorant .
That would've been their only option as 39 bodies would not be easy to conceal.
I would imagen they would just set fire to the trailer tbh
@Dickie 3! probably a low level dupe used by people higher up in the trafficking gang.
But the driver wouldnāt off been that stupid to realise that anyone could survive in the back off a refrigerated trailer for long, so if he knew he would off known heād kill them all. So I doubt he knew, more like they all climbed into the back somewhere or he was told to collect the trailer and deliver it as that was his job, the truck would off had a security seal/tag on it when he collected it, so he canāt open the trailer as itās company if security tag sealed.
More likey he parked up for 5 for a piss or check his say nav or whatever, the. Did a walk around trailer check and seen his security tag was broke and open the doors to check.
Any normal person would know it would kill them being in a back off a fridge trailer. Iām sure heās just a guy doing his job. Heās probably a victim too
Awful. They're investigating the Irish firm he works for as possibly being a front for a people trafficking ring.
It's possible they went to let them out at the side of the road before delivery at the depot, only realising something had gone catastrophically wrong at the moment of opening the storage unit and discovering all 39 had perished. They proceeded as normal to the depot and pretend to be unaware of what was in the back. 39 bodies are not easily concealed - so this was, in that scenario their only option outside of digging a mass grave - which would've been conspicuous. People smuggling is a ruthless and evil trade. The governments of Europe know it's happening but do too little to thwart it.
They need to strengthen borders and pressure foreign governments to impose harsher penalties and sanctions upon individuals and firms who engage in it . Awful!!!
Nothing political will stop this, nobody has the balls to, apart from a few certain eastern europe countries.
How about the upmost respect for the driver who's name and face have been plastered all over?!
Nice of the media to release a guys name and photo just as the investigation is starting. These are reasons why the public can't stand or trust the media.
@Protoman hes been arrested on suspicion of murder. Suspicion that's it, so they plaster the guys face all over. According to what I know so far those containers are sealed and the driver took over the cab a short time so fail to see how the press feel it's irrelevant to get some guys face and name all over.
The guy probably hasn't been charged or isn't a prime suspect. I'm not too familiar with British laws, but I assume suspects would have the same protections or similar as they do in the U.S..
I cannot believe the driver would off known about the people in the trailer, as he would know they wouldnāt survive in a refrigerated unit for long.
Any one knows if the lorry had to be empty? I see no other reason for driver to stop and randomly open the back. And if it was loaded it would have been sealed.
they had to release the manās name and face in order for the word to spread further and if anyone has any information on the suspect they can come forward
The name nor the picture of the knife attacker from a few weeks ago in Manchester hasn't been released. The Syrian refugee who slammed a truck into 9 people in Limburg this month has received the same treatment. This guy's face has been shown to the public even though he just drove the truck - didn't load it and I'm sure he was not supposed to opened it/unload it (I guess the company he works for specializes in people trafficking and someone else was supposed to open it and move the people to another location once in England).
The antisemitic attack that took place in Halle, Germany that was committed by an ethnic German, has been flooding the news and the guy's name and picture are well known. There is even a wikipedia page on it right now, even though only 2 people died (still inexcusable).
Well if we had harder borders this wouldn't happen in the first place.
Interesting that every comment I've seen here calling for tighter border checks and complaining about "the one's that got through" or similar is from someone who can't even *spell* "border".
I doubt the driver knew the bodies were in the trailer. It was refrigerated and it would be normal for the driver to pick up a preloaded locked trailer. The police have to interview him of course, but I am not going to jump to the conclusion that he is guilty. I feel sorry for the driver, if he is innocent he will be very traumatised by this.
@Mary Kennerley I received notification for your other post (reply) but for whatever nonsense YT reason it hasn't published in the thread (well, I can't see it in the thread anyway!) Just a sentence to let you know i've seen it and I agree.
@Mary Kennerley Precisely and I agree with innocent until proven guilty. However, exactly that which you initially describe ensures plausible deniability for a guilty person.
My dad lived near where this happened
Itās not drivers fault, no one sane in their right mind would drive 39 people across borders knowing there is 39 people in his lorry and act like itās just another routine drive, he perhaps didnāt even know anything about it and maybe shocked to find what he did in the back once he stopped at the final destination.
its so sad for these poor people to lose their lives in this manner....but this is why we need stricter guidelines for immigration and illegal immigrants as the left-wing don't help matters encouraging these people to come here with the promise of housing and money.this is why boarders are required in all countries then maybe this sort of thing wont happen again.
I'm quite liberal but I agree that borders need to be more heavily secured and illegal immigrants shouldn't be allowed to stay, or supported. Legal immigrants, of course, I'll welcome them, but if you come here illegally, you're taking resources away from people who were born here and came here legally, and you're likely going to get yourself killed in some way.
I feel sorry for the poor bloody driver who found them and called 999 and then had the media label him a murderer and plaster his face over the interweb while being in custody ...nice
Its not just the ''left wing'' sadly, the fake conservatives are fully on board with mass immigration to supply a cheap workforce for corporations and drive up house prices.
The main issue is in the uk we donāt have mandatory ID cards, the NHS is walk in, plus thereās a lot of cash in hand work. People can live and work in the uk completely undetected which makes it a very attractive destination for trafficking. This is an incredibly heartbreaking event, letās hope something is done to prevent a repeat of this.
Media judge and jury and excutiner on this poor guy ...murder ...do they even know what that word means...more like man slaughter.....if this guy didn't know what he was carrying at back of lorry...and if its air tight you wouldn't be able too hear a sound..poor guy.must be tratimisized what happened.
The blame should go to politicians who refuse to toughen up on illegals.
SuperBigwinston .. mainly MSM for their propagandist lies .. For their need to be the first one to print something they actually have no knowledge as to whether they're right or wrong about in their statements and don't give a shite either ...
@Finlay Craig Oh of course perhaps they are on a budget holiday. Whatever they are doing they should not have been in the trailer at all. If people broke the law getting into UK they have no right to claim to stay full stop.
@Celyn Eldr is this a safe and legitimate way then?.... We are an island nation and our borders should be protected at all cost. We should toughen up on border patrols and if need be bring in our armies to patrol the borders and seas, instead of being in other countries fighting their wars, why not protect us for a change?
God I love Essex
These people were dead before they were in the UK. I feel bad for the driver. He's obviously a tramper that picks up cargo to deliver without knowing exactly what's inside, like 1000s of other drivers in the UK. He was the one who alerted the police and now his life is effectively ruined.
what led the paramedics to that container? seems like a random thing to do
Lord Jock .. apparently the trailer didnāt leave Ireland, only the cab part. The trailer with the supposed dead bodies in which Mo is supposed to have collected, has been stated as having come from Belgium/Zeebrugge and arrived by ferry at Grays in Essex in the early hours ??!! Stranger and Stranger - odder and odder !!?? Something not right about any of it ......
Lord Jock .. if as has been said by other truckers that it was a Fridge Trailer that was sealed and couldn't be opened by the driver who collected it from the port, then how did he know there were all those dead bodies inside ??!! Had he reached its destination ??!!
The driver called them
All Iām saying is go on the guys Facebook profile and youāll see the truth. He has been released and is also the one which phoned the ambulance
Peter Barton go on his Facebook and youāll see then he was released from the cell ya plank
Where did you get that he was released from? What a plank!
Of course he knew there were people in the trailer, Why did he pull out of the docks and travel a couple of miles up the road to a remote area of an industrial estate then cut the seals to look in the trailer. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Seems like he got the cargo. Drove down the road. Went to let them out. Opened the doors and realised they were dead. Tragic. Still innocent until proven guilty and they shouldn't release names and addresses unless it's in the public interest.
Having a nosey at his facebook page, his friends recently complementing him on his big fancy house and garden.
At 25 he either has very rich parents are does many runs in his expensive lorry.
If proven innocent, the man might be entitled to financial compensation for defamation and various other issues which arise. If found guilty, he is entitled to a prison cell for life.
@Gareth H forgive me, as the sources I've read have obviously given me wrong information. Appreciate being given the right set of facts.
@Just Chillin All of this is just factually incorrect. News sources will never assume guilt, that would be prejudice and they would be prosecuted. His name was given by a member of the public and where he lives was obtained from his FaceBook account - the police released no personal details apart from "25-year-old man from Northern Ireland". Also, he has not been released and is still being questioned.
@Gareth H Yes, that's not what I was talking about. As this carries on, news sources, blogs etc most likely will, refer to him as a murderer or human trafficker. When he might not be either, in which case he MIGHT be entitled to sue for defamation. His name and where he lives/where he's from has been spread everywhere and from my understanding he has been released, he most likely isn't able to go home or if he has, he definitely won't be able to leave his home because, whilst he has yet to be proven guilty of anything, most lay people only see the surface and will already brand him involved in the murders at least. His life for the most part is over, the police released his details prior to conducting a full investigation, that makes them liable for anything that happens to him until the investigation is concluded.
In what was was he defamed? He has been arrested for questioning nothing more. Nobody has reported anything different. If somebody is found with 39 bodies in their vehicle they are going to get questioned.
39 people lost their lives...ššš
The driver is innocent
Restumy Bahram not true. If you drive a contener across Europe, crossing numerous countries, Iāve done it myself in August, you have to go through Serbia, Hungary, Austria,Germany,Belgium, France. He would of definitely known that someone was inside. Not to mention that according to company, they are supposed to check the load inside for security reasons.
toonmag50 but in a lot cases of drivers didnāt have any clue
The clandestine at the back of their lorry all on the hands of smugglers my friend.
If you know this then tell the police. A key witness like you shouldn't waste time on TheXvid.
This has been going on day after day for years now. why now is it just becoming a thing ?
@Sal Vulcano This sort of thing has been going on for some 30 years (reported illegal entries on every scale) and if unsuccessful but discovered by the criminals do you think they inform the authorities? As for, *"And we don't report on if it succeeds because of the fact that we don't know it actually happened."* ... no sh!t. Why do you think I said it and therefore that's why you cannot make any such claim that this doesn't happen often. For all you know a mass illegal entry like this could be happening multiple times every day at every port.
@Yet Again No it doesn't, not often in Europe, especially not in Britain. And we don't report on if it succeeds because of the fact that we don't know it actually happened. We just know it's happening gradually. And we do report on it if it is unsuccessful and someone dies.
@Sal Vulcano Yes it surely does happen on a mass scale like this and often. You only know because of two tragedies. What about all the times it's successful, or not successful even, but the authorities (and us) never find out.
Because it doesn't happen on a mass scale like this, this often. The last thing something like this happened was in 2000.
The authorities are trying to make it tough for drivers by trying to hold them responsible. What happens if the container gets moved from a truck to a train.
They were found dead in Grays as well ... thatās crazy man
" large docks, Tilbury and DP World, thousands of containers enter Thurrock weekly. So it's expected.
God bless them
In my opinion I think that the 39 people who lost their lives were trying to get into this country but suffocated inside the lorry, I don't blame the driver as murderer because he was probably doing his job other than that he did take a photo of himself while driving he looked as if he was also into this, the UK is a big country and a bit rough to get into, hopefully the police will find others who are also into this :(
Shame on you, The Times and The Sunday Times...the man is 'suspected', not 'convicted'. I hope he sues you stupid for plastering his name and face all over the news.
The driver passed out when they opened the back. He's innocent. Let him go.
@Carl os , he was an innocent victim. You apparently believe people are guilty until proven innocent.
This is what happens when you promise the world to people from less well-off nations promising then everything if they come over here. Along with uncontrolled borders people take the risk.
This isnt much different from thr familes with children who drown crossing the sea.
And what does our media do? Do they acknowledge the aforementioned? No.. They throw the poor truck drivers name and face at every possible avenue to divert attention.
These people are sick.
@Silk Worm drama is a good way to divert attention.
Now they have a white working mans face to pin on the horrible reality of human trafficking.
To divert attention? Unlikely. They just want drama and clicks.
@Trouble Came Calling We don't have open borders? right...
I'll tell you what. Next time. Why don't you go to Brussels "for a better life" and allow some other people to come to the UK and stay in your house "for a better life".
if you end up in Grays essex you may aswell end it lol but jokes aside R.I.P poor sods!
Must've been a smuggling operation gone wrong.
@uzumaki nagato I doubt. The UK isn't considered a rich country compared to China. Only Europeans and Africans would go there.
Kidnapped women or children we are becoming very American in behaviour
Poor guy. Face has been all over the media like he bundled them in there and got paid
@Peter Barton not really fussed lol
Lol
This is like that last episode of Criminal UK :(
Thanks TheXvid, I was probably enjoying my day a bit too much
I knew there would be trouble as soon as I heard Uber was doing takeaway deliveryās.
It's a fridge trailer so i am thinking that this types of trailers are allmaost air sealed or close to that and when you stick 39 people in there they gonna run out of air...
Nt4ubs.....it could be they werent equipped for winter conditions in the UK and had summer shorts and t-shirts on
The Wire had a plotline similar to this.
If this wasnāt a refrigerated trailer do you think they would have survived? It was the cold/lack of air that killed them?
@Scott Johnstone That's the trouble now, These Trafficking gangs are so complex they even have there own employed in certain roles or pay off the staff astronomically without harm coming to there loved ones so the "Goods" get through.
If @Mihai Cls picks up a container and find there is humans in there he will be interrogated for it
The driver obviously hasn't done it. The media showing his name and face is plain wrong.
How were they able to find the bodies? I understand the paramedics discovered them before the police but how did the paramedics get there in the first place? Just curious
@Napoleon Wilson well the government pays out hundreds of millions to House these people!
Antonio Montana agreed what news or events are they trying to bury. As if the Government gives 2 shits about 40 dead illegal immigrants.
This whole story stinks. Not much makes sense.
Say what you want, that's pretty awesome truck.
And what makes everyone so sure that it's not another container full of immigrants? Why are we calling them victims this quickly, and calling the driver a killer?
u know that carry people on their lorry through the security is illegal. but this guy still do, and he can go through the security because the 39ppl were dead before he comes to the security.
*All these illiterates commenting here don't know that when someone is found connected to an incident like this, the person comes under immediate suspicion. Allowing him to go doesn't mean dropping the suspicion on him. That's like granting bail. Not an acquittance. He is still a prime suspect.*
@Yet Again *Still on his identity? Now you know he switched off the cooling system after crossing the border which led to the suffocation of the passengers.*
Your entire premise has now become a bunch of nonsense for which there is actually no evidence currently in the public sphere and moves away (again) from you original post. You managed all of that on your own. Your bomb analogy is a fallacious argument, also a self construct of your own mind. You can't miss the point in both threads we are conversing any more than you are. So again, *no-one I think disagrees with your original premise,* but his anonymity should be maintained. He is innocent of everything, including your made up most recent post until proven guilty. It's very simple and that is what people are commenting on majoritively as being wrong here. The actual crime is a completely separate issue to his identification.
@Yet Again *Wait. Let's put this in another way....... while considering the facts of the matter.*
*This is not some random crime case. We are talking of 39 human bodies found inside a truck. Under what circumstance did he get to drive that truck? Was he offered money by some random stranger to deliver a truck somewhere without him asking what the contents are?*
*Are you going to be making this argument if your family had been blown up by a bomb placed in that truck which that guy brought near your home cause some random stranger told him to?*
*This is a very sever issue and no, even if he had no idea what the contents are, as long as it is a shady deal (like being told to deliver the truck somewhere by a stranger), he remains a prime suspect.*
Again you miss the point. *"No-one I think disagrees with your premise (Got it?)"* ... but plastering everything about the man, including his identity etc..... is not acceptable.
Lets put it another way. You get fingered for a crime (of which it matters not if you are innocent or guilty, but especially if innocent) would you be happy with your picture, name and so on being plastered across the entire national press. Some people will assume guilt. Some people will abuse him or his family as a result etc..... He should be kept anonymous until at least charges are formally applied.
@Yet Again *There is no part of the report that says he is a criminal. The media rightly called him a suspect.*
I honestly think i have seen this man before
Does anyone know why the 39 bodies was inside the lorry ?
Why are the media referring it as a container. It is an insulated fridge trailer. The people will have sufforcated. A similar thing happened a few years ago. They were Chinese if I recall. An absolute tragedy. I can't begin to imagine the terror they went through. Unimaginable.
No one said it was a shipping container Not all containers are shipping containers frevisake.
@Name Who the hell cares.
@FrankEdavidson It is a refrigerated trailer. I used to drive articulated trucks and have driven enough of them in my time. In any case it doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that their death must have been terrible. Terrifying.
Oh yes I heard about that...It was in Dover they discovered the bodies wasn't it. Awful that.
Please take his name and photo down
@Peter Barton I still stand for what I said earlier as the police and the media were not 100% sure of the situation back then. He could have been innocent, but now I guess proven otherwise. All I mean is to find hard evidence before assuming someone is guilty!
@Acronyx Yes, but it can be quiet down. The longer the name stays on, the more people in the future will know. I would want it taken down either way if it were me. And then sue...
Damage is done. His life is ruined now either way.
I see the Immigration Authorities are still letting Hundreds of illegal boat people cross the channel & not sending em home & yet a young Irish trucker is hung out to dry when no facts are produced that he actually knew the Chinese immigrants were on board the container when in fact people smuggling into the UK is now out of control ??
I hope you get sued by the driver and he takes you to the cleaners.
Rip to the 39 souls who died šš¾ā¤
the national front have been singing, 'here's to you, mr robinson.'
Murder Yh right
someone is out of a astronomical amount of coin definitely a ventilation issue
Unbelievable
I feel bad for the driver but a single doubt if somebody can clarify. I understand that drivers picking up trailers from dock are not allowed to open it. Then how come this driver opened it that too at 1:40 in the morning?
@Dickie 3! thanks for your input. Yes that might be the case then.
Thatās the only doubt I have, why would the driver open the back doors at 1 am, if not at his delivery location, Iām a lorry driver myself, most trailers with goods on are security tagged with a seal, the only thing I would suggest is that he parked up for a break/rest and he checked his trailer and maybe noticed the tag seal was broken and looked inside to see if there was anything untoward or stolen. Then seen the bodies and called an ambulance
who are those dead people? why didn't they take a flight?
Maaruks .. They were Chinese, 8 women 31 males .. R.I.P to all those poor souls that perished ....
His just a driver I don't reckon he is to blame I bet he never new what he was shipping
HTF do they get past customs
@shizzlers0135 25/10/19. Released are you sure? At this date he is still in custody.
Carrie Halliday .. I think your possibly quite right re France saying illegal immigration from Calaise is our UK problem .. I've also come across this knowledge ....
bogart99 .. Your comment is confusing .. The actual container is thought to have come from Zeebrugge in Belgium. It was collected by Mo Robinson with his cab in Grays in Essex and may have been bound for Holyhead in Wales on its way, maybe, to Northern Ireland ....
It's funny how how we care more for these people in death than we ever did in life
@Ger - No, not to push brexit.
You could easily say it has the opposite effect. More deception has been made to stay in the Union!
I don't care at all
Thereās nobody in the trailer itās made up to push brexit and close the borders
Because in death they can't do us any harm.
@CreativeAmerican - I don't know I've looked at a few cakes said to myself that looks like shit and then the next minute it is gone
But god bless customs because they found 50 pouches of golden verginia british made tobacco in my car that I was driving back to almost where it was made and threatened to take the car and contents off me
Lmao š
These people literally commited suicide.Im sure they knew what can happen to you if you stay in a freezing place with no oxygen for a long time
What the heck. 39 lives.
Mo Robinson is a handsome guy, those eyes..šš
Why thank you
If containers are not opened why not , they were opened to fill them you never know could be full of illegal stuff
It's not a container trailer, it's a fridge trailer..probably to keep the bodies cool, like in a morgue.
what kind of people whould have done this! this is so sick!
I donāt think this guy had a clue he had migrants. I might be wrong but if heās innocent then the court should have held his identity. They let it get out to the press, which makes me think he has more of a role to play. In my personal opinion, if these people just stayed in China (which is financially better off than Britain), theyād be alive today. Yes, it might be suppressive but what use is it in England if youāre illegal?
You are wrong then! What is it like to be so wrong?
What we are not told - who discovered the bodies, under what circumstances? How long since the victims died? Where was the container sealed and were the seals intact?
The driver called the ambulance I believe
God my dads family live in Essex so Iām quite shocked
People have been leaving flowers and saying nice things for the 39 dead. I wonder what things they'd have been saying if they had all got into the country. Bet they wouldn't have been very nice.
@Garry Taylor LOL, ELITES REPLACEMENT CART MALFUNCTION
ā@Ultimate Reviews Everyone that dies is a saint then?
Don't be so dramatic.
I highly doubt it was the driver and here is why
the lorry came from Bulgaria, Bulgaria imports a lot of food items such as meat and these have to be kept in cold conditions and not exposed to the external environment. The truck came from Bulgaria to Ireland and this is when the driver came in, why would he open the truck when he was told there are perishable items, he is not in charge of the items in the truck, he is just the delivery man, you would not expect the postman to know what is in your package. This is the same as arresting a royal mail postman for doing a delivery to a house containing drugs, the driver is innocent
The trailer did not come from Bulgaria, it has not been back there since 2017. The driver is not innocent just because you say so, he has to be questioned.
These people usually do anything on risking their life to get to their destination I guess it is destiny don't do what I won't do
@PajamaJazama ššššš
@Lydia Moore Lol, what adorable comments. Bless you dear :)
It sad but you know people take dangerous measure and put their life at risk it has been seen numerous times the length an measures that people can take with there life health an safety start with your self
What about the boat loads of hundreds that would have been toooooo risky for me
Ya right a normal person would definitely lock and seal themselves in a fridge
He isn't guilty of this yet & might not of known that he was collecting dead bodies as the trailer could of been hard security locked on the back doors. Or it could of been a breakable one, but a lot of drivers are to scared to break them to check the load as they are then accused of theft, or attempted.
But that's beside the point. It hasnt stopped the police or media naming this man for murder investigation & showing his picture, address & facebook details.
I can tell you now & you have to admit. If this man was of ethnic background, they WOULDN'T disclose any information about him at all.
Plus, if your dumb enough to get into freezer trailers to illegally get into another country & travel all that way, then you get what you ask for... Simple
EVERY lorry coming into the UK should be checked!, not eany meany miny mo!
How were these 39 people persuaded to get into a dark air tight refrigerated container? They might be desperate but not suicidal. Were these people alive when the lorry entered the UK? What led Mo Robinson to alert the paramedics if he was not aware of the cargo? If he was, why would he do such a stupid act, risk getting caught during checks? This case is not as simple as many are making it out to be.
They likely went in willingly, it would be rather hard to force 39 people into somewhere. Mo likely heard something or did a usual check of the goods, only to find a horror show in the back and instantly called the police, or he was a dumbass who made some sort of deal and didn't realise they'd run out of air and freeze to death. The fact he called the ambulance gives me the impression he was unaware of the 39 people and is innocent of this crime. Presumably, they snuck in, or was helped by a guy in customs.
Guilty as sin.
Like something from the dark web or a horror movie
That is not a container š thats a Reefer trailer
Hold on there familys
End of day they were trying to get in the countrys illegally sure there family šŖ they were taking a risk going to england in back of a lorry š so want was the plan we will call you when we get to UK š¬š§
Come on don't feel sorry š for them sure they risk the high price
The power of media.
everyone's out here making theories and im just shitting myself
it's 11pm Britain we shouldn't be watching this-
Itās obvious what happened, a smuggler tool in 39 illegal migrants for profit but made no provisions for oxigen and therefore they died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The driver opened at the other end, saw what happened and legged it .
HaveBad Day the driver didnāt leg it though, called an ambulance
@HaveBad Day Yes, COĀ². I thought you meant there was a CO emission from the refrigeration unit.
Clio Aspinade oh... itās carbon dioxide isnāt it
Clio Aspinade š¶their lungs ...
Where would this carbon monoxide come from?
What if he says āiM taKinG ThEm To theIr GraVeā
I don't understand how the authorities got to the trailer so quickly? at that time of night? like how did they know there was something in there? did the driver park it illegally or something? and the police came to check it out? or did the driver call the police himself thinking something wasn't right?
Nothing makes sense about this story.
Guy who was arrested:
*Mission Failed, weāll get em next time*
Abyss Neurax I see what you did there šØš»āš¾