A warehouse worker found dirty footprints among a shipment of Bakewell tarts and macaroons, raising suspicions of 'human activity' just five days before 39 migrants died in the same trailer, a court has heard. Later that day when Kennedy dropped off the biscuits at Lenham Storage in Sittingbourne, Kent, they were rejected, the court heard. 'This confirmed to me that there had been some human activity in the trailer that was not legitimate.' Harrison, 23, Kennedy, 24, of Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, and Calota, 37, of Birmingham, have denied involvement in a people-smuggling plot, which Nica admits. Harrison, of County Down, and Nica, 43, of Basildon, Essex, have denied 39 counts of manslaughter while Maurice Robinson, and Hughes, have admitted the charges.

Source: Daily Mail October 21, 2020 17:54 UTC