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| A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people, Essex police have said. | A 25-year-old man from Northern Ireland has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people, Essex police have said. |
| Maurice Robinson, known as Mo, was arrested early on Wednesday morning after police were alerted to the discovery of 31 men and eight women found dead in a lorry trailer in Grays, Essex. | |
| Robinson had picked up the trailer, which had arrived in Purfleet from Zeebrugge in Belgium, with his Scania lorry cab less than an hour earlier. He is due to appear at Chelmsford magistrates court on Monday. | |
| He is charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration, and money laundering. | |
| The charges came after a man wanted by Essex police as part of the investigation was arrested at Dublin port on Saturday. An Garda Síochána said the man, who is in his early 20s and from Northern Ireland, was held over an unrelated outstanding court order and will appear in court on Saturday afternoon. | |
| He is understood to be sought by Essex police as part of their investigation, and the force confirmed that officers were liaising with Irish police. | |
| Three other people arrested over the deaths, including a 48-year-old man from Northern Ireland who was detained at Stansted airport on Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to traffic people and manslaughter, remain in custody. | |
| Officers had earlier arrested a couple, named locally as haulage boss Thomas Maher and his wife, Joanna, both 38, of Warrington, on suspicion of 39 counts of manslaughter and people trafficking. | |
| In Belgium, police are hunting the driver who delivered the trailer to Zeebrugge, the port it left before arriving in the UK. | |
| The time the victims entered the trailer and the exact route by which it travelled are not yet known. Belgian officials said the trailer arrived at Zeebrugge at 2.49pm on Tuesday and left the port the same day en route for Purfleet. | |
| The trailer arrived at Purfleet at around 12.30am on Wednesday, and was picked up by the cab, known as the tractor, which had arrived from Northern Ireland via Holyhead in north Wales on Sunday. The lorry left the port at Purfleet shortly after 1.05am and police were called to the Waterglade industrial park on Eastern Avenue in Grays at 1.40am. | |
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