Crime boss who killed 39 migrants will have to pay back £180k -the profits from one trip

A crime boss serving 20 years for killing 39 migrants who suffocated in the back of a lorry will have to pay back over £180,000 he made as a human trafficker after his challenge to the compensation order was rejected. 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…

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