Smuggler linked to 39 lorry deaths of Vietnamese nationals to pay RM385,000 to families


LONDON (PA Media/dpa): A people smuggler responsible for killing 39 people found in the back of a lorry has been told to pay more than £65,000 (US$82,000 - RM385,000) in compensation, bringing the total ordered to be paid to the victims' families to more than £280,000.

Gheorghe Nica, a 46-year-old Romanian citizen living in Britain, was jailed for 27 years in 2021 for the manslaughter of the Vietnamese nationals, aged between 15 and 44, found in a vehicle in Essex on October 22, 2019.

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