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Irish Mirror
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Emily Pennink

Irish haulage boss ordered to pay £180,000 to families of 39 container death victims

A haulage boss jailed over the deaths of 39 men, women and children as they were smuggled into the UK has been ordered to pay their families more than £180,000.

Ronan Hughes, 43, of Armagh, Northern Ireland, is serving a 20-year sentence for the manslaughter of the Vietnamese nationals, who were aged between 15 and 44.

On Friday at the Old Bailey, Judge Mark Lucraft KC confiscated Hughes's ill-gotten gains from his leading role in the long-running people-smuggling operation.

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