Maidstone - The Dutch driver of a truck in which 58 Chinese immigrants were found dead at Dover port last year played a full and knowing part in transporting them to their deaths, prosecutors said yesterday.
Mr Perry Wacker (32), from Rotterdam, faces 58 manslaughter charges as well as charges of smuggling and conspiracy to smuggle immigrants. The Chinese victims in the case - 54 men and four women - were found suffocated in a refrigerated lorry as it arrived off a ferry from Belgium on the night of June 18th/19th last year.