Two houses in the Laurelvale, Co Armagh, the home village of Mo Robinson, who was hauling the container in which 39 people died, were raided by police on WednesdayPeople smugglers known as “snakeheads” are feeding the resurgence of Chinese organised crime in the UK, experts and police have warned. Based in China, the snakeheads are black-market “travel agents” for illegal migrants who enter the sex trade, work in drug cultivation or end up in forced labour in the UK. Daniel Silverstone, an expert at Liverpool John Moores University in Chinese organised crime, said that the 39 victims in the Essex murder investigation were likely to have come to work illegally in the restaurant trade or for organised crime syndicates. “The traditional organised crime group has evolved,” he said. “Snakeheads are people who are concerned with moving people from A to B…

Source: The Times October 24, 2019 23:08 UTC