People-smuggling trial hears from man who took earlier journey

Vietnamese national travelled in same container in which 39 people died two weeks later

A Vietnamese man who travelled to the UK in the same shipping container in which 39 people would suffocate to death a fortnight later has told a court of making the journey, for which his parents paid 13,000.

The money was paid a day after he arrived in the UK, where he was kept in a flat until it was transferred into a Vietnamese bank account, the Old Bailey in London heard.