UK - 39 bodies found in lorry container, Essex, 23 Oct 2019 #2

[CaptainNancy]

https://www.antislaverycommissioner...e-nationals-en-route-to-and-within-the-uk.pdf

Report into modern slavery of Vietnamese victims, included sections on kidnapping minors from care, transport routes, cannabis farms etc.

 

[HayLouise]

“Tra My is finally home,” says her brother to me. #Essex #39 #lorrydeaths #repatriation

Nga Pham on Twitter

In reply to ‘are they all home now?’:

No the first 16

Nga Pham on Twitter

 

[HayLouise]

27 November 2019:

“Sixteen bodies including five from Nghe An province have arrived in Vietnam,” said a senior official of the province. The bodies arrived at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi early on Wednesday, online newspaper VnExpress reported, and would be taken by ambulances to homes in Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces. The remaining bodies would be repatriated later, VnExpress said.

“After waiting for so many days, my son has finally arrived,” Nguyen Dinh Gia, father of victim Nguyen Dinh Luong, told Reuters.

“We are deeply saddened, but we have to hold back the emotion to organise the funeral for my son,” Gia said by phone from his home in Can Loc, Ha Tinh province.

'My son has finally arrived': first of Essex lorry bodies returned to Vietnam

 

[HayLouise]

Vietnamese police have said the deceased came from six provinces: Haiphong, Hai Duong, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Hue. Their families were plagued by confusion and anguish over how to get the bodies home.

The families would have to pay for the repatriation costing up to £2,208, according to a foreign ministry statement seen by Reuters. The statement, dated 14 November, said the Vietnamese government would advance the payment which families could repay later.

'My son has finally arrived': first of Essex lorry bodies returned to Vietnam

 

[HayLouise]

Sad scenes in Vietnam as families prepare funerals for the first of the 39 victims of the Essex lorry tragedy to be repatriated Family of lorry victim organizing funeral as body arrives
via @ReutersTV

James Pearson on Twitter

This is the funeral for 18-year-old Hoang Van Tiep. Tiep dropped out of school at 15 and went to work in France a year later. He had asked his parents to help raise the funds he needed to be smuggled into the UK. "We begged him not to go," his parents said.

James Pearson on Twitter

 

[HayLouise]

Several Vietnamese organisations have helped to raise money for the families of the victims. More than $110,000 has now been crowdfunded to help support the families.

First bodies of UK lorry victims arrive in Vietnam

Essex lorry deaths: First 16 bodies repatriated to Vietnam

 

[alice500]

Car wash raided over human trafficking concerns


Shiny car wash modern slavery trial: ‘Payslips did not record truth’

Police identify potential victim of modern slavery at car wash in Warrington

Not just cannabis farms

 

[alice500]

https://www.antislaverycommissioner...e-nationals-en-route-to-and-within-the-uk.pdf

Report into modern slavery of Vietnamese victims, included sections on kidnapping minors from care, transport routes, cannabis farms etc.

This was a good article on the use of debt...
The debts of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in Europe

Interesting to compare this with the use of "student loans" to improve one's lot in the west.

 

[HayLouise]

Christopher Hughes, who is wanted by police in connection with the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in Essex, has lost his heavy goods vehicles (HGV) licence.

[...]

At a public inquiry in Belfast, his firm - C Hughes Logistics Ltd - with an address in Armagh, had its licence to operate several vehicles revoked.

Christopher Hughes did not attend.

He was not represented at Friday's hearing in Belfast's Killymeal House.

Christopher Hughes' lawyers, Logan and Corry Solicitors, had earlier asked for an adjournment but their request was denied.

Their client previously held a HGV licence for the Republic of Ireland which was withdrawn in January 2016 because of infringements.

Christopher Hughes also had a separate licence granted in Northern Ireland in 2015.

Both licences allowed him to operate HGV vehicles across the EU in all member states.

Essex lorry deaths suspect loses HGV licence

 

[CaptainNancy]

So no lawyer represented him.

Are you able to instruct a solicitor when on the run or in hiding? By which I mean can solicitor represent you in full knowledge that you are wanted for questioning by police, if they know who you are , where you are and how you can be contacted? Without infringing professional standards?

 

[Deleted member 254730]

So no lawyer represented him.

Are you able to instruct a solicitor when on the run or in hiding? By which I mean can solicitor represent you in full knowledge that you are wanted for questioning by police, if they know who you are , where you are and how you can be contacted? Without infringing professional standards?

He's not wanted by the Irish police, he's not on the run, or in hiding. He was present during recent CAB searches. No arrest warrant has been sent from the British police.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Essex lorry deaths: last of bodies returned to Vietnam


The remains of the last 23 of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a lorry near London in October have been brought to Vietnam.

The remains of the 23 victims arrived at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi early on Saturday, a local government official said. Seven of the bodies were cremated in Britain before being repatriated, said the official Vietnam News Agency.

 

[CaptainNancy]

He's not wanted by the Irish police, he's not on the run, or in hiding. He was present during recent CAB searches. No arrest warrant has been sent from the British police.

And yet the BBC, usually good on checking facts before publication, say he is wanted for questioning
Essex lorry deaths suspect loses HGV licence

But we have been round the block of the curious circumstances surrounding the Hughes bros before.

Someone has been looking into things and joining up the dots wrt the licenses.

 

[alice500]

And yet the BBC, usually good on checking facts before publication, say he is wanted for questioning
Essex lorry deaths suspect loses HGV licence

But we have been round the block of the curious circumstances surrounding the Hughes bros before.

Someone has been looking into things and joining up the dots wrt the licenses.

My understanding was that they were wanted for questioning by the Essex Police, but there is no arrest warrant extant in the area they are living.

This leads to the question as to why not?

Perhaps there is insufficient evidence to justify an EAW ?

Which in turn leads to the question .... what sort of teeth does Europol have when it comes to cross border human trafficking?

 

[CSIDreamer]

Brief list of who I can gather up from links on these threads as the players in this ring:

Mo Robinson (currently jailed)

Christopher Kennedy (currently jailed?) I'm starting to think Mo rolled on him

36 y.o. Male, arrested 11/25, bailed until 12/20

Thomas Maher, bailed

Joanna Maher, bailed

Eamon Harrison, currently jailed

46 y.o. Male, currently bailed, he was arrested around the same time as the Mahers.

Ronan Hughes, wanted for questioning

Christopher Hughes, wanted for questioning

Depending on the source up to 11 arrested in Vietnam

That's 20 so far.

I'll flesh this out later. I know it's bare bones.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Please continue discussion here.

Can someone add the link for thread 1?

UK - 39 bodies found in lorry, Essex, 23 October 2019

Self reporting for link.

 

[Deleted member 254730]

Băng đảng buôn người Ireland gài bẫy dụ dỗ tài xế trẻ

Vietnamese report comparing smugglers to paedophiles, in the way they groom and entrap young Irish drivers. The MO is to recruit a driver, on a regular run, give hi m instructions if he finds someone in the trailer to give the booss/office a call, before the police, warning that he would be in trouble with the law, irrespective of whether he knew anyone was aboard. They would rig it so that one or two people board, driver discovers them, calls the boss, boss tells them to let them go, and come home. Once home, the driver gets £500 per person, for his trouble. The young driver is then recruited for bigger and bigger payoffs.

A favoured scam is to park somewhere enroute, where there are lots of cameras, and go for a coffee. Refugees then board. If the truck is stopped, its easy to show the driver had no idea. Loads containing beer are also favoured, with the same paperwork recycled, because trucks carrying beer are common on the ferries, and the authorities don't have the time to check all the beer trucks' paperwork closely.

 

[CSIDreamer]

Băng đảng buôn người Ireland gài bẫy dụ dỗ tài xế trẻ

Vietnamese report comparing smugglers to paedophiles, in the way they groom and entrap young Irish drivers. The MO is to recruit a driver, on a regular run, give hi m instructions if he finds someone in the trailer to give the booss/office a call, before the police, warning that he would be in trouble with the law, irrespective of whether he knew anyone was aboard. They would rig it so that one or two people board, driver discovers them, calls the boss, boss tells them to let them go, and come home. Once home, the driver gets £500 per person, for his trouble. The young driver is then recruited for bigger and bigger payoffs.

A favoured scam is to park somewhere enroute, where there are lots of cameras, and go for a coffee. Refugees then board. If the truck is stopped, its easy to show the driver had no idea. Loads containing beer are also favoured, with the same paperwork recycled, because trucks carrying beer are common on the ferries, and the authorities don't have the time to check all the beer trucks' paperwork closely.

I wonder what happens if they say no.

 

[alice500]

Băng đảng buôn người Ireland gài bẫy dụ dỗ tài xế trẻ

Vietnamese report comparing smugglers to paedophiles, in the way they groom and entrap young Irish drivers. .

I think not just young or Irish?

Looks like the original report was here ..

Mob bosses grooming truck drivers by tricking them into human trafficking

 

[alice500]

Brief list of who I can gather up from links on these threads as the players in this ring:

One wonders whether the port authority in Zeebrugge should be added to this list?

I see little reference to the case in the Belgian press.. and yet there would seem to be questions to be answered there.