Smuggled immigrants 'tried to escape lorry'
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Smuggled immigrants 'tried to escape lorry' |
| The 58 Chinese immigrants found dead in the back of a lorry at Dover frantically tried to escape when they realised they were suffocating, a court has heard. One of the two survivors, Su Di Ke, 20, told Maidstone Crown Court that people tried to kick their way out and began screaming for help but no-one came. Dutch lorry driver Perry Wacker, 32, is accused of manslaughter and attempting to smuggle people into the UK illegally from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. He denies the charges. The BBC's Jane Peel reports from outside Maidstone Crown Court:
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