Hunting the Essex Lorry Killers

It started with a 999 call from a lorry driver in an industrial estate in Essex and ended in one of the UK’s biggest-ever police investigations into the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in October of 2019. Spanning Britain, Europe and Vietnam, the film shows how detectives cracked open a multimillion-pound international people smuggling ring with its roots in a seemingly innocuous haulage business in the heart of Northern Ireland. This is a gripping and humane account of one of the UK’s most shocking crimes and a story that lifts the lid on the hidden world of organized crime's trade in people smuggling.