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 | Dover Truck Deaths Case: A policeman guards the site where a truck was found containing corpses at Dover Docks June 19. British customs found the corpses of 58 Far Eastern illegal immigrants crammed in a truck, victims of a human smuggling scam that went horribly wrong. click to open  |  | Dover Truck Deaths Case: British customs officers search a truck at Dover Docks June 19. British police said on June 22 they had arrested two more people in connection with the deaths of 58 illegal immigrants from China who suffocated in a tomato truck. click to open |  | Dover Truck Deaths Case: Forensic police inspect boxes, part of the load of a truck in which corpses were found at Dover Docks June 19. British police said on June 22 they had arrested two more people in connection with the deaths of 58 illegal immigrants from China who suffocated in a tomato truck. click to open |  | Dover Truck Deaths Case: Trucks are loaded onto transport ships in the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium in this April 7, 2000 file photo. On Monday June 19, 2000 the dead bodies of 58 persons were discovered in the container of a Dutch-registered truck which arrived in Dover, England from the port of Zeebrugge. Two Chinese people have been charged with helping to smuggle into the UK the 58 illegal immigrants who died in the back of a lorry at Dover. You Yi, a 38-year-old chef from South Woodford, East London, and Ying Guo, 29, an interpreter of the same address were arrested on Tuesday evening. They have been charged with conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry into the United Kingdom of the 58 immigrants. The pair will appear before Dover Magistrates at 0900 GMT on Saturday. The Dutch driver of the lorry who was accused of the manslaughter of the 58 immigrants has been remanded in custody for seven days. Perry Wacker, 32, of Rotterdam, Holland, faces one count of facilitating the illegal entry into the UK of two people, and one count of attempting to facilitate the illegal entry of 58 people as well as 58 counts of manslaughter. He appeared before Folkestone magistrates on Friday morning. click to open |
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