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Armagh man charged with human trafficking following Essex lorry deaths

Published 11:12 24 Nov 2019 GMT

Updated 11:50 24 Nov 2019 GMT

Alan Loughnane
Armagh man charged with human trafficking following Essex lorry deaths

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He's due in court on Monday.

A man has been charged with human trafficking offences after 39 migrants died in a lorry trailer found in Essex. Christopher Kennedy, a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland, was arrested in Buckinghamshire on Friday. The Crown Prosecution Service has authorised charges of 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. Kennedy, of Corkley Road in Darkley, Armagh, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court on Monday 25 November.

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