Two Northern Ireland lorry drivers, including one from County Derry, have been jailed for people smuggling following the death of an Afghan man seeking asylum in the UK.
Meet Singh Kapoor, 40 died from a heart attack while travelling from Belgium with 34 others, including his family.
36-year-old Stephen McLaughlin (pictured above right), from Rose Park in Limavady, was jailed for nine years and Martin McGlinchey, 49, from Derryloughlan Road, Dungannon, for eight years.
Both men denied conspiracy to facilitate illegal entry into the UK but were found guilty at Basildon Crown Court.
UK Border Force officials found 35 Afghan women, men and children in a lorry at Tilbury Docks in August 2014.
One man, Meet Singh Kapoor, was found dead inside the container
The container had arrived in Tilbury with 10 men, 10 women and 15 children on board from Zeebrugge.
Essex Police said McGlinchey helped to organise the lorry's movements and drove the container to Dover.
McLaughin supplied the lorry and allowed his shipping account to be used for the container's journeys.
A third man, Taha Sharif, from High Cross Road, Tottenham, who was convicted of the same offence last year, and who will be sentenced later this month, organised the loading of the people into the container.
When they arrived in the UK, the 35 asylum seekers were treated for shock, exhaustion and dehydration.
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