Eamon Harrison, 22, of Mayobridge in Newry, Co Down, appeared on Monday morning for mention over a European Arrest Warrant
A 22-year-aged man from Northern Ireland has appeared in court docket in relationship with the deaths of 39 migrants located in an lorry container in Essex.
Eamon Harrison, 22, of Mayobridge in Newry, Co Down, appeared on Monday morning for mention over a European Arrest Warrant to have him transferred to the United kingdom.
The court docket was beforehand informed that British authorities want his extradition for prosecution on 39 counts of manslaughter, 1 demand of conspiracy to commit human trafficking and yet another of conspiracy to aid illegal immigration.
The 41 allegations relate to the deaths of eight women and 31 men from Vietnam who ended up found in the back again of the refrigerated truck in Grays, Essex in the early hrs of Oct 23.
Mr Justice Donald Binchy adjourned the scenario for a whole listening to on 21 November.
Harrison was brought to the court docket amid tight safety this morning. Gardai last week visited him in prison to notify him they experienced been given ‘credible information’ of a risk to his everyday living.
He appeared in the dock carrying grey trousers and a grey top and did not converse throughout this morning’s sitting which lasted just under 5 minutes.
Police are investigating the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who ended up located in the back again of this refrigerated truck in Essex
He utilized for senior counsel representation and will return to court docket in Dublin on November 21.
Police have exposed the group of migrants who died bundled 10 teens, two of whom ended up just fifteen.
They launched the names, ages and home provinces of all of individuals who perished in the air-tight container.
The group ended up produced up of eight women, 3 boys and 28 men. The eldest was forty four and the youngest was fifteen.
Thirty of the group ended up from Vietnam’s poverty-stricken provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh, which are claimed to be the heartlands of the country’s trafficking trade.
The group died in a container, which experienced been shipped to the Essex port of Purfleet from Zeebrugge in Belgium.
The driver of the lorry, Mo Robinson, twenty five, has appeared in court docket billed with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to website traffic persons, conspiracy to aid illegal immigration and money laundering.
Detectives are also hunting Ronan Hughes, 40, and his brother Christopher, 34, who are claimed to have one-way links with the highway haulage and shipping industries, to hand by themselves in.
The pair, from Armagh in Northern Ireland, are needed on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking.
Speaking after the names ended up announced last week Assistant Main Constable Tim Smith claimed: ‘This was an exceptionally essential system and our staff has been performing hard to deliver responses to concerned households who fear their liked 1 may be among the individuals whose tragic journey ended on our shores.
‘Our precedence has been to discover the victims, to maintain the dignity of individuals who have died and to help the victims’ close friends and households.
‘It remained of paramount worth to us to ensure that an individual’s subsequent of kin ended up knowledgeable, and that they ended up presented some time to take up this tragic news ahead of we publicly verified their liked one’s identity.
Pham Tra My, 26, has been verified as among the the 39 persons who died in a lorry in Essex
Fifteen-year-old Nguyen Huy Hung (still left) was the youngest of the group, 10 of whom ended up teens. Nguyen Dinh Lurong, 20, (appropriate) was also named among the individuals who died
The group ended up ended up from five provinces in the central, coastal location of Vietnam and two provinces in close proximity to Hanoi
‘We have labored carefully with the Countrywide Crime Agency, the Foreign and Commonwealth Business office, and the Vietnamese Authorities to discover and find their households.
Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner, Mrs Caroline Beasley-Murray claimed: ‘May I get this option to present my deepest condolences to the victims’ households. My feelings are with them at this unimaginably hard time.’
