Lorry driver ‘blind to the risks’ of people smuggling, court told

Maurice Robinson, 26, leaving Purfleet port, Essex (Essex Police/PA)

A lorry driver who discovered the bodies of 39 migrants in the back of his trailer had been “blind to the risks” of people smuggling, a UK court has heard.

The Vietnamese victims, aged between 15 and 44, had suffocated in the sealed container as it was shipped from Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Kent in October 2019.