Six in UK court accused of people-smuggling over migrants’ container deaths

Six men are due to appear at the Old Bailey accused of being part of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a container Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Six men are due to appear at the Old Bailey accused of being part of a people-smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a container.

The bodies of the Vietnamese nationals were discovered on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, shortly after the container arrived in Purfleet on a ferry in the early hours of October 23 last year.