Police recount discovery of 39 bodies in lorry trailer driven by Armagh man

Maurice Robinson from Co Armagh. Picture: Elizabeth Cook/PA

A police officer has described how he found the tightly packed, half-naked bodies of 39 migrants in the back of a lorry trailer.

Pc Jack Emerson was among the first at the scene in Essex after lorry driver Maurice Robinson dialled 999 early on October 23 last year.