UK lorry driver took 23 minutes to raise alarm over 39 dead Vietnamese migrants

In this file photo taken on Oct 23, 2019 British Police forensics officers work on lorry, found to be containing 39 dead bodies, at Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, east of London. - AFP

LONDON (AFP): A British lorry driver who discovered dozens of dead Vietnamese migrants in a container waited 23 minutes before alerting police, a court was told on Tuesday (Oct 27).

Maurice Robinson, 26, who has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of the 39 migrants and to conspiring in people-smuggling, made the grim find in the early hours of October 23 last year.