{"id":40833,"date":"2022-01-20T02:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/19\/vietnamese-people-smuggler-jailed-for-15-years-over-deaths-of-39-people"},"modified":"2022-01-20T02:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T17:39:32","slug":"vietnamese-people-smuggler-jailed-for-15-years-over-deaths-of-39-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40833","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese people smuggler jailed for 15 years over deaths of 39 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gang leader Vo Van Hong sentenced by Belgian court over deaths in sealed lorry container in Essex<\/p>\n<p>The Vietnamese leader of a people smuggling gang has been sentenced to 15 years in a Belgian jail over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2020\/dec\/21\/essex-lorry-trial-two-found-guilty-over-deaths-of-39-vietnamese-people\">the death by suffocation of 39 men, women and children<\/a> transported across the Channel in a sealed trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Vo Van Hong, 45, was also ordered to pay a \u20ac920,000 (\u00a3760,000) fine by the court in Bruges, while prison sentences of between 18 months and 10 years were handed to 17 others for their roles in conducting a large-scale smuggling operation between Vietnam and Britain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2022\/jan\/19\/vietnamese-people-smuggler-jailed-for-15-years-over-deaths-of-39-people\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gang leader Vo Van Hong sentenced by Belgian court over deaths in sealed lorry container in EssexThe Vietnamese leader of a people smuggling gang has been sentenced to 15 years in a Belgian jail over the death by suffocation of 39 men, women and childr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888,221,52,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belgium","category-europe","category-uk-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40834,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40833\/revisions\/40834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}