AS the trial of four men accused of offences related to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese would-be illegal immigrants to the UK whose bodies were discovered in Thurrock entered its second week the father of one of those who died says he and his family are not seeking to place blame on anyone.

20-year-old Nguyen Dinh Luong was among those who died in a container being transported from Belgium to England.

The horror of their fatal journey, which culminated in the discovery of their bodies when the lorry hauling the container stopped at Waterglade Industrial Park, West Thurrock in the early hours of 23 October last year is being retold in a trial at the Old Bailey.

Four men are on trial in connection with the deaths.

Lorry driver Eamonn Harrison and Gheorghe Nica are accused of manslaughter. The pair are also accused of being part of a people-smuggling conspiracy with another lorry driver, Christopher Kennedy, and Valentin Calota.

Nguyen Dinh Luong's father Le Minh Tuan has curled up in the bed of his deceased son every night since the young man suffocated in the container. But Tuan — like many of their grieving families — does not hold them responsible for the tragedy.

"I don't blame anyone," he told French news agency Agence France-Presse at his run-down home in central Nghe An province, sobbing as he spoke.

"I wish I could go to the UK to attend the trial, and to burn incense in the place where they found my dead son."

As do others who are parents and relations of those who died in the container, there is no anger towards the accused. "They did not let them die deliberately," is the message coming from the east. You can read their story here.

Meanwhile Essex police have released pictures and a video associated with the trial.

The video shows one of the accused, Eamonn Harrison driving a lorry into Zeebrugge port. The container it tows is the one in which the bodies were found.

The trial of the four men continues.