Migrant’s desperate escape attempt

Some of the 39 Vietnamese migrants who died in the back of a people smuggler’s truck had tried to batter their way out with a metal pole. The jury have seen shocking images of slash marks made by the edge of the steel pole in the container which carried the victims to their death from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet in Essex last 23 October. The Old Bailey has heard temperatures inside the trailer reached an ‘unbearable’ 38.5C as the…