‘Police ignored my smuggling concerns’

A woman who reported a suspected people-smuggling drop two weeks before the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a lorry claimed police ‘had not been listening’ to her, a court heard. Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, and British-Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, are accused of killing the non-EU citizens who were found in a container near Grays, Essex last 23 October. Valentin Calota, 37, and Christopher Kennedy, 24, are also said to have been part of a global smuggling ring…