2nd suspect charged over UK lorry deaths

A second suspect identified as Christopher Kennedy, 23, of County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has been charged in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex, United Kingdom.

Kennedy was charged with conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of people with a view to exploitation, and conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law.

The suspect who was arrested in the early hours of Friday on the M40 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, according to officials will appear before Chelmsford magistrates on Monday.

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Weeks ago, the driver of the lorry, Maurice Robinson, 25, was slammed with a 39- count charge of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering.

The bodies of the 39 Vietnamese nationals; 10 teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys, were among the eight women and 31 men found on the Waterglade Industrial Estate in a container attached to the lorry which had been shipped to nearby Purfleet from Zeebrugge in Belgium on October 23.

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