Irish Taxi Forum
Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Rat Catcher on January 22, 2021, 07:24:44 pm
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So, they're Paddies when they're caught:
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/essex-lorry-tragedy-three-irish-23368180 (https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/essex-lorry-tragedy-three-irish-23368180)
Essex lorry tragedy: Three Irish men jailed over deaths of 39 migrants
The victims, Vietnamese men, woman and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain
By Emily Pennink Tess De La Mare
15:18, 22 JAN 2021
NEWS
Four people-smugglers, including three Irish men, have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 migrants, who suffered an "excruciating" death in an airtight trailer.
The victims, Vietnamese men, woman and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain when they agreed to pay up to £13,000 a head for a "VIP" smuggling service.
On October 22, 2019, they were crammed into a lorry container to be shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex, in pitch black and sweltering conditions.
The Old Bailey heard how they desperately tried to raise the alarm as they ran out of air before reaching British shores.
The migrants, two aged just 15, were found dead by lorry driver Maurice Robinson who collected the trailer from the docks early the next morning.
Robinson, 26, of Craigavon, and his boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Armagh, had admitted plotting to people smuggle and 39 counts of manslaughter.
Hughes's partner in crime Gheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, of County Down, who had collected the victims on the continent, were found guilty of the offences.
Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Gheorghe Nica (left) and Eamonn Harrison (right) (Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire)
On Friday, Robinson, who also admitted money-laundering, was jailed for 13 years and four months, Hughes was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Nica to 27 years and Harrison to 18 years.
Mr Justice Sweeney said: "I have no doubt that, as asserted by the prosecution, the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long running, and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese migrants across the channel."
The migrants had desperately tried to break out of the trailer and raise the alarm before they suffered an "excruciatingly slow death", the judge said.
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So, they're Paddies when they're caught:
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/essex-lorry-tragedy-three-irish-23368180 (https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/crime/essex-lorry-tragedy-three-irish-23368180)
Essex lorry tragedy: Three Irish men jailed over deaths of 39 migrants
The victims, Vietnamese men, woman and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain
By Emily Pennink Tess De La Mare
15:18, 22 JAN 2021
NEWS
Four people-smugglers, including three Irish men, have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 migrants, who suffered an "excruciating" death in an airtight trailer.
The victims, Vietnamese men, woman and children, had hoped for a better life in Britain when they agreed to pay up to £13,000 a head for a "VIP" smuggling service.
On October 22, 2019, they were crammed into a lorry container to be shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex, in pitch black and sweltering conditions.
The Old Bailey heard how they desperately tried to raise the alarm as they ran out of air before reaching British shores.
The migrants, two aged just 15, were found dead by lorry driver Maurice Robinson who collected the trailer from the docks early the next morning.
Robinson, 26, of Craigavon, and his boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Armagh, had admitted plotting to people smuggle and 39 counts of manslaughter.
Hughes's partner in crime Gheorghe Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, and Eamonn Harrison, 24, of County Down, who had collected the victims on the continent, were found guilty of the offences.
Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Gheorghe Nica (left) and Eamonn Harrison (right) (Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire)
On Friday, Robinson, who also admitted money-laundering, was jailed for 13 years and four months, Hughes was sentenced to 20 years in prison, Nica to 27 years and Harrison to 18 years.
Mr Justice Sweeney said: "I have no doubt that, as asserted by the prosecution, the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long running, and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese migrants across the channel."
The migrants had desperately tried to break out of the trailer and raise the alarm before they suffered an "excruciatingly slow death", the judge said.
Sinn Fein should protest in the strongest possible terms and state that the Union Jack flag-waving Loyalists are U.K. citizens.
(https://i.postimg.cc/LJgsYMN7/iq0t4o5az1141.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LJgsYMN7)
Caught RED HANDED!
(https://i.postimg.cc/v1dG4x1g/images.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/v1dG4x1g)
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They are British citizens but probably acting with the protection of the RUC/PSNI and An Garda Siochana. Unlucky to get caught on the mainland, I guess.
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They are British citizens but probably acting with the protection of the RUC/PSNI and An Garda Siochana. Unlucky to get caught on the mainland, I guess.
Once the Vietnamese cannabis farmers are safe across the invisible border, the paramilitaries get paid.
Did ya see the truck Mo' was driving? nice rig for a 25-year-old.
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Probably paid for by FRU/MI5.
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Probably paid for by FRU/MI5.
D'ya think they heard about the Thai woman getting €12,000 for a coffee in Ireland and thought "The streets are paved with gold"!!
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Not much happens on the island of Ireland that FRU and MI5 don't know about. They have men everywhere, bottom to top.
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if they had thousands in dosh why did'nt they fly in to Britain of their own accord and then abscond.
they knew they were getting in bed with criminals to do criminal bollocks on the other side.
when they were running out of oxygen in the back of the artic they were saying don't worry i remember that nordie cunt promised us something about happy endings.
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if they had thousands in dosh why did'nt they fly in to Britain of their own accord and then abscond.
they knew they were getting in bed with criminals to do criminal bollocks on the other side.
when they were running out of oxygen in the back of the artic they were saying don't worry i remember that nordie cunt promised us something about happy endings.
Most Cannabis farms here are tended by smuggled Viets I hear. I guess they're enslaved to the snakeheads and paramilitaries until their debt is worked off.
https://www.thejournal.ie/trafficking-vietnamese-cannabis-limerick-4872737-Oct2019/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/trafficking-vietnamese-cannabis-limerick-4872737-Oct2019/)
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30969603.html (https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30969603.html)
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/jail-for-vietnamese-men-smuggled-into-ireland-to-grow-cannabis-1.3455757?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-law%2Fcourts%2Fcircuit-court%2Fjail-for-vietnamese-men-smuggled-into-ireland-to-grow-cannabis-1.3455757 (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/jail-for-vietnamese-men-smuggled-into-ireland-to-grow-cannabis-1.3455757?mode=sample&auth-failed=1&pw-origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishtimes.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-and-law%2Fcourts%2Fcircuit-court%2Fjail-for-vietnamese-men-smuggled-into-ireland-to-grow-cannabis-1.3455757)
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Damn migrants...