Trucker who killed 39 migrants pays back 55k

A crime boss who killed 39 migrants whilst transporting them in a refrigerator trailer from Belgium to south east England has been ordered to pay back £55,000 of the fortune he made from trafficking. Ronan Hughes, 43, charged his human cargo £14,000  on the run from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet in Essex and made £180,000 on a single trip His co-defendant and truck driver, Maurice Robinson, 27, had found the bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals in the refrigerated trailer on…

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