UK jails last gang member in Vietnamese lorry tragedy

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 02, 2023 12:04 am

London, United Kingdom: The final member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in the back of a lorry in southeast England was jailed for seven years in the UK on Thursday.

The migrants – the youngest of whom were two 15-year-old boys – suffocated in the container as they were being transported to what they had hoped would be new lives in Britain.

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