Crime boss faces new compensation hearing after High Court challenge

A crime boss serving 20 years for killing 39 migrants who suffocated in the back of a lorry has returned to the Old Bailey after challenging the compensation order in the High Court. Ronan Hughes, 45, had charged migrants £14,000 each on the run from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet in Essex and made £180,000 on just one trip. Trucker Maurice Robinson, 30, had found the bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals including eight women and three children in the refrigerated trailer…

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