A member of a people-smuggling gang linked to the deaths of 39 Vietnamese men, women, and children has been ordered to pay the bereaved families £3,000 ($4,126). The victims, including two 15-year-olds, had hoped for a better life in Britain when they agreed to pay up to £13,000 ($17,888) per head for a “VIP” smuggling service, the Old Bailey had heard. On October 22, 2019, they were crammed into a lorry container to be shipped from Zeebrugge, Belgium, to Purfleet in Essex, England, in pitch black and sweltering conditions. The illegal immigrants suffocated en route and were found dead by lorry driver Maurice Robinson who collected the trailer from the docks early the next morning. In January, four of the people smugglers were jailed for between 13 and 27 years for manslaughter. Others associated with the lucrative illegal operation received lesser sentences. Romanian Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 29, of Hobart Road in …