It is alleged that Eamon Harrison delivered the trailer, in which the bodies of eight women and 31 men were found, to a Belgian port before its journey to Britain.
The container lorry where 39 people were found dead inside leaving Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, 23 October. Image: PA Wire/PA Images The container lorry where 39 people were found dead inside leaving Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, Essex, 23 October. Image: PA Wire/PA Images A CO DOWN man wanted in connection with the deaths of 39 migrants in a refrigerated trailer is to challenge his proposed extradition to the UK next month.
He was arrested in Ireland on foot of a European Arrest Warrant earlier this month by detectives from the Garda’s extradition unit. When asked by Detective Sergeant Jim Kirwan whether he knew what the charges were about, Harrison said: “yes”, the High Court in Dublin has heard. “On 22nd of October 2019, Eamon Harrison had been identified as the driver of the lorry which was used to deliver the trailer unit to the port in Zeebrugge,” the detective said.
Counsel for Harrison, Siobhán Stack SC, said her client was travelling on an Irish passport, but the warrant refers to him as a British citizen.
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