Families of Essex lorry victims told neither UK nor Vietnam will fund repatriation
Impoverished relatives of the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated lorry in Essex last month have been told that neither the British nor Vietnamese governments will bear the costs of repatriating the bodies.
Bui Huy Cuong, the deputy chair of Can Loc district’s people’s committee in Ha Tinh province, where 10 of the victims were from, had expressed uncertainty last week over whether the British or Vietnamese governments would pay.
