This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence.

This podcast is intended for a mature audience.

Listener caution is advised.

They walk among us as part of the ACAST creator network.

Thank you. must create a network. Desperation can lead people to flee the country they call home in search of somewhere safer,

a place where they might have better work prospects and a better

quality of life. In some cases, they feel they have no choice but to turn to traffickers to get them

out. When they arrive at their intended destination, they know they will be financially indebted to the

traffickers, perhaps for the rest of their lives.

But sometimes the trafficked do not make it that far.

There are no safe options available for so many of these people.

Oftentimes they are left abandoned for months and sometimes years on end in very dangerous and often exploited circumstances themselves.

And many countries keep turning their backs on them.

So of course they will strive to cross a border in the desperate hope sometimes of being reunited with family,

sometimes just in the desperate hope that the next place they might get to might prove to provide the security they absolutely need.

Welcome to Season 7, Episode 20 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

It was midweek in the early hours of the morning, a usually quiet period for staff at the

emergency call centre, but at 1.36am, a 999 call came in from a lorry driver who was parked

on Eastern Avenue in Grace Essex.

The date was Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019.

Hello, Corr, is patient breathing?

Hello, no, I'm a lorry driver and I just lifted a trailer from the port.

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