Juror off lorry deaths trial

One of the jurors trying four men accused of involvement in a people smuggling ring linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants was discharged for medical reasons. Lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, are accused of causing the deaths of the victims who were found suffocated in a trailer near Grays, Essex. Christopher Kennedy, 24, and Valentin Calota, 37, are also accused of having been part of the global smuggling ring driving non-EU citizens into the…