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Two Jailed for Conspiracy to Smuggle 10 People to UK
Eoin Nolan and Daniel Loughran received prison sentences after charging £150,000 to smuggle 10 Vietnamese nationals, including eight children, concealed in lorry tyres, officials said.
- On Thursday at Maidstone Crown Court, Eoin Nolan, 53, and Daniel Loughran, 36, were jailed for plotting to smuggle ten Vietnamese nationals, including eight children, hidden in a lorry loaded with worn-out tyres.
- Investigators found the scheme was driven by profit, with the organised crime group taking £150,000 from vulnerable migrants, charging about £15,000 each and paying drivers £25,000 for the route via France and Belgium.
- The operation was uncovered when Belgian authorities stopped the lorry on December 5 at Gentbrugge parking area and found ten migrants hiding between worn-out tyres, with driver Duncan McLaughlin, 64, from Glasgow convicted.
- Judge records show the two men received custodial terms: Daniel Loughran got five-and-a-half years and Eoin Nolan four years, though Nolan has already served time; the Crown Prosecution Service condemned their risks to children and border checks.
- Prosecutors say the convictions form part of wider action against people-smuggling, with Wayne Sherlock pleading guilty in June 2020 and the National Crime Agency noting the plot came months after the tragic deaths of 39 migrants.
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Two men imprisoned for smuggling 10 Vietnamese into UK in tyre-filled lorry - Birmingham Live
Eoin Nolan, 53, and Daniel Loughran, 36, were convicted of conspiring to facilitate the illegal entry of foreign nationals into the UK after a trial in February this year
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Two men jailed for conspiring to smuggle 10 Vietnamese nationals to the UK
Eoin Nolan, 53 and Daniel Loughran, 36, were convicted of conspiring to facilitate the illegal entry of foreign nationals into the UK in February.
Co Armagh man who attempted to smuggle ten Vietnamese migrants into UK jailed
Two men who attempted to smuggle ten Vietnamese migrants into the UK in the back of a lorry, just months after 39 migrants died making a similar crossing, have been sentenced following a National Crime Agency investigation. Eoin Nolan, 53, and Daniel Loughran, 36, from Newtownhamilton were part of a people smuggling gang who conspired to move ten migrants, including eight children, from Belgium to the UK on 5 March 2020. The gang are believed to…
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