Dream of escape that became nightmare

IT was supposed to be an escape to freedom. It ended up as a nightmare trip from hell.

Thirteen immigrants looking for a better life, spent more than four days and nights locked in a metal container on a journey they thought would take just three hours.

Within an hour of being smuggled on to a ship in Zeebrugge, they were having trouble breathing. By the time the 40ft container was opened in Ireland, eight of them were dead.