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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Adam Dutton & Ross McCarthy & Ryan Merrifield

Refugees heard 'screaming for their lives' after being locked inside 'coffin' wardrobes

A Romanian people smuggler who trafficked Afghan refugees into the UK hidden inside "coffin-like" wardrobes in "barbaric" conditions has been jailed.

Children as young as two were among 35 people found "literally fixed and screwed" into second-hand furniture in vans driven from France to Britain.

A court heard the refugees were found screaming for their lives at ports in Dover and Portsmouth between August and October 2019.

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