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On 23rd October 2019, 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated trailer in Essex. Although the investigation is still ongoing, it is thought that all 39 people on board were Chinese nationals. The discovery echoes a similar case in 2000 when 58 Chinese citizens were found dead in a sealed, airless container at Dover. Essex Police have said it is the largest murder investigation in the force’s history.
The death of 39 people who died in horrific circumstances is a stark reminder of the extreme and deadly dangers to which people are exposed on journeys to the UK, whatever their reason for risking it all to do so.
JCWI believes that the incident in Essex is the latest in a series of tragedies, that cannot be explained away by the all too real fact of criminal exploitation but are made inevitable by a broken immigration system.  The Government must reconsider existing policies related to border control and border en…