‘Romanian people smuggler was waiting for his own passport’

A people smuggler accused of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry trailer was waiting for his own UK passport, a court heard. Romanian Gheorge Nica, 43, and Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, allegedly caused the deaths of the non-EU citizens who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated lorry. Nica will claim he was a ‘gofer’ and deny any knowledge of the scale of the conspiracy, the Old Bailey heard today (mon). Valentin Calota,…