39 people found dead in truck container in southeast England

Let them in, send them back if necessary, but enough is enough. Don t let the people or sex smugglers win

Come on Strangerland, you are not a blocker by any stretch of the imagination , and it is quite right to point out the cost.

It would be a substantial sum, and the logistics would be an additional financial burden too.

39 lives lost, in addition to the 60 Chinese immigrates trapped in the similar container for more than 18 hours. There has got to be a smarter way of dealing with this.

There is technology available but it is eye-watering expensive,

So who pays for that?

You write as if I’m the one personally blocking it.

There is technology available but it is eye-watering expensive, these people suffered an agonising slow death. Strangerland please, the 39 are human beings. Spend the money.

These ports must check every container. NO more soft ports

Heh, people on the internet make declarations so easily without having any clue whatsoever of what the logistics of their proposed solutions would entail.

Do you have any clue whatsoever of the numbers of containers that would cover, and how many people would be required to do so? As well as the time it would take to do it. It would gum up shipping times, and who is going to pay for the thousands and thousands of inspectors such a move would require?

Suffocation or carbon dioxide poisoning? Traggic!

38 adults and a teenager froze to death in the back of a container lorry.

These ports must check every container. NO more soft ports

This will never end until their home countries improve.

".... will continue whether our UK is in the EU or not."

It will continue as long as the UK remains an outstanding place to live and work, where people from around the world receive respect and enjoy freedom. If it weren't all those things, such huge numbers of people wouldn't be so desperate to get there, many of whom cross thru the likes of Germany, Austria, Netherlands and France en route.

The UK is a victim of its own attractiveness.

Unusual route for people smuggling more expensive and more time. Two ferry crossings.

Perhaps that's why the traffickers chose it - lower security maybe.

Reports say the trailer/container actually travelled from the Belgian Port of Zeebrugge ….

Happens here in America with people coming from the southern countries.

Not a good way to go. Having said that, if I were to find them alive, I'd send them all back across the channel.

The driver of the Truck has been named, Mo Robinson, from Portadown, County Armagh.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/23/driver-arrested-after-39-bodies-found-in-lorry-container-in-essex

These are soft ports, what a tragic way to go.

They arrived the long way round, Bulgaria, Cherbourg, Rossclare,Dublin, Holyhead. All the ingredients of people smuggling, frozen to death in the back of a lorry.

I understand there is no information as to the country of origin of the 39 deceased ?

&Zichi

If you knew the aftermath of Brexit, then you would be the next prophet...

The saddest part of this is that the world has enough food, medicine, jobs, etc. to help all people. But, when you have dictators, religious zealots, and many (not all) billionaires running the countries you end up with tragic stories such as this. Maybe everything wouldn’t be equal, which is fine, but as a world or just in our country, we can erase the tragedies of extreme poverty that we see everyday.

Jesus. Absolutely shocking