Mo Robinson Admits Migrant Plot In Court After Being Charged With 39 Counts of Manslaughter

[♥ Lily ♥]

Lorry driver Mo Robinson admits plot
after 39 migrant deaths

25th November 2019

1 hour ago


Mo Robinson is accused of 39 counts of manslaughter

A lorry driver who is accused over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in Essex has admitted plotting to assist illegal immigration.

Maurice Robinson pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to conspiring with others to assist illegal immigration between 1st May 2018 and 24th October 2019.

The 25-year-old, from County Armagh in Northern Ireland, is accused of being part of a larger plot to bring people into the U.K. illegally.

Mr Robinson was not asked to plead to 39 charges of manslaughter.

The charges relate to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people, including children, who were discovered in the back of a refrigerated lorry being driven by Mr Robinson in Grays on 23th October.

Mr Robinson, who appeared via video-link from Belmarsh prison, also admitted acquiring criminal property - namely cash - between 1st May 2018 and 24th October 2019.

As well as the manslaughter charges, Mr Robinson is accused of conspiracy to commit human trafficking offences and transferring criminal property.

The defendant, of Laurel Drive, Craigavon, was remanded into custody until a further hearing on 13th December.


The bodies were discovered in a refrigerated trailer

Eight women and 31 males, including two boys, aged 15, were among those who died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50545658




There's a fear he'll leave the country if he escapes.

[♥ Lily ♥]

He (Mo Robinson) reminds me of the handsome and extremely charismatic and witty northern English singer Robbie Williams, below, (a Mancunian from Manchester.)


I also think he looks like this other handsome northern English guy called 'Gaz' (a nickname for Gary or Gareth) at 18:02-22:00

[♥ Lily ♥]

Well if he's charged with manslaughter rather than murder, it means that he didn't intentionally mean for the migrants to die in this mass homicide, which is a slight mitigating factor in the circumstances, even though he'd plotted to smuggle them into the U.K. for a large sum of money, and was fully aware that they were contained in the back of his lorry.

Both the migrants and himself knew the dangers and risks attached with people smuggling though. I wonder why the migrants paid a large sum of money and took such risks with their lives to want to move and live in our island. If they would have survived, they'd have been eventually caught, arrested, and deported as illegal immigrants.