{"id":30585,"date":"2019-10-25T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30585"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T12:26:03","slug":"two-more-people-were-arrested-over-essex-lorry-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/two-more-people-were-arrested-over-essex-lorry-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"New arrests made over Essex lorry deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: 21:04<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essex police have arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of human trafficking and of manslaughter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The man was detained at Stansted Airport earlier today and is\u00a0believed to be from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>A man and a woman, both 38, had also been arrested in Warrington under the same charges earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has reported that they have been in contact with three families from Vietnam concerned that their relatives were in the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Essex Police initially believed the victims were Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The spokeswoman of The Chinese Foreign Ministery, Chunying Hua, pin-pointed that the journalists should not \u2018presuppose\u2019 this case to China.<\/p>\n<p>The police added: \u201cWe would continue to ask journalists and those on social media not to speculate of the identities of anyone involved in this investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the lorry, a 25-year-old man, remains in custody for pending investigation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Police have arrested a fourth person following the discovery of 39 bodies in a lorry in Essex <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nMiib15j2w\">pic.twitter.com\/nMiib15j2w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PA Media (@PA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PA\/status\/1187807557206859777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\">https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words: Kim Se Hee, Wanchen Cao<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: 21:04 Essex police have arrested a 48-year-old man on suspicion of human trafficking and of manslaughter. The man was detained at Stansted Airport earlier today and is\u00a0believed to be from Northern Ireland. A man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}