Calls of ‘open up’ could be heard in background of telephone message left by one of the 39 victims, Old Bailey told
Victims of an alleged people-smuggling gang desperately pleaded for the doors of a lorry container to be opened before all 39 of them suffocated, a court has heard.
A year ago this month, the men, women and children, aged 15 to 44, were found dead in the trailer after it was shipped from the Belgium port of Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex.
