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39 found dead in the back of a truck in the UK
The bodies including at least one teenager were found in Essex in the early hours packed into the back of the truck that is believed to have come from Bulgaria. The driver was arrested on suspicion of murder.
The member of Parliament, Jackie Doyle-Price, quickly blamed the “sickening news” on human smuggling.
“People trafficking is a vile and dangerous business,” she tweeted.
Richard Burnett, chief executive of the Road Haulage Association, also blamed the trade for the “tragedy.”
“Our thoughts are with the families of the deceased but whatever the circumstances, it highlights the danger of migrant gangs people-smuggling on lorries,” he tweeted.
Human smuggling taking place in the liberal London. Who would have thought that.
Yes he did deliberately kill them no suspicion about that.
Yes, obviously he overpowered 39 immigrants and forced them all into a refrigerated container unit. You're a moron. The police are trying to scare him.
You have no evidence that anybody was forced anywhere. You're making stuff up, which is boring and stupid. If you want to discuss the news then that's great. If you want to make up your own version of it then that's pointless and boring.
No one was forced into getting in the trailer well they must done that have of their own free will.I mean most people like traveling in a tractor trailer rig.
Wait..., what? The Nazis didn't force people into gas chambers but they still murdered them. Just saying
The legal difference is intent. The Nazis intended to kill people. From what I can gather, nobody intended to kill these people. They were likely illegal immigrants being smuggled into the country by an organised crime gang.
Another story proving what Conservatives have been saying. If there are no guns, they will kill another way..THE PROBLEM IS NOT GUNS! IT'S OUR GODLESS CULTURE!
It is really fun watching those working so hard to defend a Mass Murderer. Their narrative has been completely destroyed. Then you got Ol' Sean B saying the Mass Murderer is a good guy from a good family. The idiots are too transparent when faced with reality.
What a load of absolute shit. This has nothing to do with guns. They reckon it is people trafficking. At any rate, more guns creates more killing: as we see in the USA, where the rate of murder per 100,000 people is more than 7 times that in the UK.
(In British law) Murder is the premeditated killing of another person. Strain your peanut brain really hard and see if you can figure out which of those words rules out that this was a "mass murder".
The truck last entered Bulgaria in 2017. The Bulgaria thing is not believed to be connected to the incident. And the suspect comes from a working class, well respected family. By his account, from what I can gather, he had the truck for no more than 25 minutes before the bodies were discovered.
There was no mass killing in the UK but there was a mass killing in the UK.
This was a tragic accident which, as per usual, you are working hard to distort for political purposes. Exploiting tragedy isn't much of a step up from causing it, buddy.
The driver has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
As would be the case anywhere in the world if you had 39 dead bodies in your truck. Are you saying the police should have just assumed he didn't know they were there and let him go? You'd make a fine detective, wouldn't you?
One of the biggest murder investigations in British history is underway after 39 bodies were discovered in a lorry container at an industrial estate today.
The lorry driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, was arrested and it is thought the HGV travelled from Holyhead, north Wales, and across England before the corpses were found.
it is thought the HGV travelled from Holyhead, north Wales, and across England before the corpses were found.
The container came from Belgium you moron. They were, with 95 percent certainty, illegal immigrants. The front part of the truck came from Northern Ireland, along with the driver.
Lol. The Sun. Renowned throughout the UK as residing at the very bottom of the gutter press. Guilty of conspiring to hack the phones of numerous politicians and celebrities for information. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, the most insane far right criminal since Hitler.
Detectives are investigating whether organised crime gangs could be behind the deaths of 39 people inside a refrigerated trailer, in what is feared to be one of Britain’s worst people-smuggling tragedies.
Police have begun trying to identify the 38 adults and a teenager whose bodies were discovered when the lorry stopped at an Essex industrial estate.
Officers want to work out the movements of the vehicle, which is thought to have arrived in the UK from Zeebrugge, in Belgium, in the early hours.
Detectives are questioning the driver, a 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland, on suspicion of murder.
They have refused to confirm his identity but reports have identified him as Mo Robinson, from Portadown in Co Armagh.
There is actually a process in developed countries called investigation. It is what we use to ascertain the truth in a criminal case. Not sure if you're aware of it ...
He got in the trailer and was in it for 25 minutes, at the start of his shift. At any rate, we don't, in the developed world, make snap judgements in criminal matters. We have process and law.
It is mass murder and not one gun was used. So in the UK mass murder can be committed with a tractor trailer rig. Should tractor trailer rigs be banned.
The mockery of logic is your inability to accept that mass murder was committed in the UK. 25 minutes some how gives you an excuse to excuse one from transporting dead bodies in a 53 ft trailer. No need to charge that individual with murder just the suspicion of murder. Defense lawyer to the judge. Your honor this person should not be charged with murder but should be charged with the suspicion of murder. That defense should work out well in a court of law.
You honestly think equating the predatory capitalization upon people who are motivated by moving themselves away from conflicted zones of the Earth and who die as a result, is equitable to gun reform.
He simply works for a haulage company. It is like you working as captain of a container ship, having 30 people found in your freight, and you automatically being considered to be guilty of their murders.
This is why we have due process. There is, as of yet, no evidence against this individual. We don't even know if he was aware what was in the truck, much less if he is guilty of their murders.
The investigation will get to the truth of it, I trust.
No need to charge that individual with murder just the suspicion of murder.
Murder is the intentional killing of a person. You can't charge someone with murder unless you have evidence they had the intent to kill. In this instance it appears there was no intent to kill; only to illegally transport the victims into the UK.
If the driver gets charged, he will almost certainly be charged with manslaughter and not murder. Under British law, manslaughter is effectively the killing of a person through negligence or misconduct. Manslaughter is usually what drunk drivers get charged with when they kill someone. It can carry a penalty comparable to murder in the right circumstances, but it is not murder.
Mass murder is able to be carried out in a variety of circumstances, weapons or not. That doesn't mean that common sense gun legislation is a moot point. They are two entirely separate issues. That it is possible to starve someone to death (or however else these people have died), in no way negates that we should be ensuring guns don't fall into the wrong hands.
At any rate, murder requires mens rea and actus reus, and both must be proven beyond reasonable doubt for guilty of murder to be the verdict. These have not in any way been proven. At the worst I would suspect that the man is guilty of manslaughter (providing he had knowledge of the truck's contents); at best, he was getting in his truck to do a routine job and happened to be the poor schmuck who was working that day, clueless of what was about to happen.
