Immigrant death route made £1m a month

Four people smugglers are facing life sentences for killing 39 Vietnamese migrants on a trafficking route that was making the mastermind £1million a month. Drivers Eamonn Harrison, 23, and Maurice Robinson, 26, together with Romanian fixer Gheorghe Nica, 43, were paid by Ronan Hughes, 40, to ferry non-EU citizens into the UK. The run from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet in Essex was so well established that Hughes could charge his human cargo £14,000 a head, raking in a fortune…