People smuggler linked to 39 deaths jailed for seven years
by Emily Pennink
Nov 30, 2023
4 minutes
The final member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 men, women and children in Essex has been jailed for seven years.
Haulage boss Caolan Gormley, 26, from Co Tyrone, was driven by “greed” when he plotted to bring migrants into the UK from mainland Europe three times in October 2019, the Old Bailey heard.
One of the trips was scuppered by French border officials, with some migrants from that trip believed to have died days later in a fatal run overnight on October 22-23 2019.
Gormley had denied being involved, claiming he thought
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