In a criminal court in London, hearings began on the case of 25-year-old truck driver Maurice Robinson on charges of illegal transport of migrants, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.
Hearings are scheduled for 10.00. The suspect was brought to court shortly before the hearing.
Essex County Police on October 23 found 39 dead in a truck that arrived in the UK from Belgium. The victims were initially called Chinese citizens, but then it turned out that they were Vietnamese. Police detained several people, including a truck driver, 25-year-old Maurice (Mo) Robinson, from Northern Ireland.