A PEOPLE trafficker has been jailed for 12 years and seven months over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who died in a lorry container reports then BBC.
Marius Draghici, 50, from Romania, admitted 39 counts of manslaughter and one count of conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration.
The bodies were discovered on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, in October 2019.
The Old Bailey was told Draghici was a “right hand” man in the operation.
The judge, Mr Justice Garnham, said Draghici “was a small but essential cog in the wheels of this criminal conspiracy” that “put would be migrants at risk of death”.
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