Trio face court ahead of lorry deaths trial

Three accused people smugglers appeared at the Old Bailey today (mon) to stand trial in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in the back of a refrigerated lorry. Irish truck driver Eamonn Harrison, 23, and British-Romanian Gheorghe Nica, 43, are accused of killing eight women, two boys and 29 men on October 23. Christopher Kennedy, 24, and Valentin Calota, 37, who was absent from today’s hearing, are said to have been linked to an international ring ferrying non-EU…