Essex lorry deaths: Why Vietnamese migrants risk their lives

In the early hours of 23 October 2019, a grim discovery was made on an industrial park in Grays.<br /><br />The bodies of 39 people were found dead in a refrigerated lorry. <br /><br />29 men, eight women and two 15 year-old boys had suffocated. We later learned the victims were all Vietnamese migrants. <br /><br />On this episode of the Sky News Daily podcast with Dermot Murnaghan, we hear their stories as a people smuggling gang await sentencing in January for manslaughter. <br /><br />Why did they seek to leave Vietnam in the first place? What went wrong? And what’s being done to stop others facing a similar fate?<br /><br />Dermot is joined by Sky’s South East Asia correspondent Siobhan Robbins, our crime correspondent Martin Brunt and Dr Tamsin Barber - a senior lecturer in sociology at Oxford Brookes – as we examine the story beyond the headline.<br /><br />Daily podcast team:<br />Podcast producer - Annie Joyce<br />Podcast producer - Nicola Eyers<br />Podcast producer – Emma-Rae Woodhouse <br />Interviews producer - Oli Foster<br />Interviews producer – Ella Griffith<br />Archive - Simon Windsor<br />Music - Steven Wheeler