It started with a 999 call from a lorry driver in Essex and ended in one of the UK’s biggest ever police investigation | dG1fUkFrRllXMUdCTzQ
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00:00 Hello, caller, is the patient breathing?
00:01 Hello, no, I'm a lorry driver and I just lifted a trailer from the port.
00:07 I don't think so.
00:08 There's loads of them, there's immigrants in the back, but they're all lying on the ground.
00:13 How many approximately?
00:15 I don't know.
00:17 Twenty-five.
00:18 Twenty-five patients not breathing?
00:20 Yeah.
00:21 Yeah.
00:22 SIREN WAILS
00:24 We were the first two cars on scene.
00:36 Hi.
00:37 The officer in the other car, he opened the back doors of the trailer.
00:45 Jesus Christ.
00:49 There was three or four seconds of just trying to process what you're seeing.
00:54 It was almost just like silence, no-one was saying anything
00:57 and no-one really knew what to say.
01:00 So, that's what I'm...
01:02 The driver just stood there, he didn't say a word.
01:06 He didn't look stressed or flustered.
01:09 The time is 1.51, the rest of you are on submission of murder,
01:15 you do not have to say anything.
01:16 We do not mention or question something which you let out of line and call.
01:19 You all right, Jack? Yeah, I'm fine.
01:23 Luckily, there were a large number of premises with CCTV
01:44 that showed Mo pulling up in the trailer,
01:48 getting out of the trailer and walking to the rear of the doors.
01:53 And you can see him clearly opening the doors.
01:57 And it has a look in.
01:58 And then closes them.
02:01 It's an odd thing to do.
02:10 You've just found 39 dead people in the back of your lorry.
02:14 So, you're going to get back in and go for a drive.
02:16 When Mo was arrested and came into police custody,
02:19 he had a Samsung mobile phone,
02:21 but he also had a Nokia battery in his pocket.
02:24 He had an old phone battery? Yeah.
02:26 How come? Because we lose signal in Denmark.
02:29 Do you work in Denmark? Yeah.
02:31 OK.
02:32 Yeah. So, I had an old phone.
02:35 You mean, you'd lose signal with your... On the phone.
02:37 Your smart phone, so the old Nokias... Yeah.
02:41 ..would still work. Believe it or not,
02:43 the signal, you'd still get it, yeah.
02:44 So, where is it? I threw it away.
02:48 Whenever this all happened, I panicked.
02:52 Just freaked out.
02:53 Chances are we'll find it.
02:55 We will download it, even if it's broken. Yeah.
02:58 What's going to be on it? Nothing.
03:06 People seem to think that when they take a SIM card
03:09 out of a mobile phone, that that's it.
03:11 You see on the movies, they take the SIM cards out
03:13 and they break the phone.
03:14 But you can recover a lot of data.
03:17 The CCTV image was just perfect.
03:36 He walked under the camera.
03:38 We were able to put a face to the person top of the phone.
03:42 What were you thinking in that cab?
04:02 No comment. Did you go straight back to the cab?
04:04 No comment.
04:06 Did you run off? No comment.
04:08 Harrison appeared to have made a lengthy journey
04:24 to a place called Bierne in France.
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05:38 You read in the press and you talk about, you know,
05:43 it's migrants, it's these terms that almost dehumanise people.
05:48 And then you see just someone's ordinary pictures and messages
05:52 to one another, you know, you see that and it's, you know,
05:56 that'll stay with you.
05:58 Robinson and Ronan Hughes were there already, having a drink.
06:14 It was about midnight or one in the morning.
06:17 And then Nica turns up and he's carrying a black Holdall.
06:21 He then is greeted by Hughes and they then go upstairs
06:26 and they go to Hughes' room and they're out of view
06:29 for quite a few minutes, I think about 14 minutes, I think.
06:32 And then they come back out again.
06:35 That bag looked a little more empty than it did when it went in.
06:42 I suspect there was money inside that bag.
06:44 Maurice Robinson is sentenced to 13 years.
06:55 Eamon Harrison gets 18 years.
06:59 And as ringleaders, Ronan Hughes receives 20 years
07:04 and Georgie Nica, 27 years.
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