Trucker confesses to killing 39 Vietnamese immigrants

A trucker who smuggled immigrants for an international people trafficking gang has admitted killing 39 Vietnamese migrants who died in the back of his refrigerated trailer. When Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson, 25, picked up the trailer at Purfleet in Essex on 23 October last year the 31 men and eight women were already dead. The trailer had travelled 173 miles from Zeebrugge in Belgium to Purfleet and the victims had died up to 12 hours before Robinson hitched it to his…