Human trafficker's last days of freedom

Human trafficker's last days of freedom
Channel 4 News
Special Report
29 June, 2003
By Adrian Gatton

"I dream I'm returning to China and I am being arrested by the police. I am always having nightmares."

These are the words of Sister Ping who was jailed in the Netherlands last week for smuggling people from China into Britain.

It was her gang that was responsible for the ill-fated operation in which 58 people suffocated while hidden in a truck bringing a cargo of tomatoes through Dover.

But what emerged from the trial was the sheer scale of Sister Ping's human trafficking. It's estimated that she could have been responsible for more than a quarter of all Chinese illegal immigration into Britain.

Adrian Gatton gained exclusive access to the police phone taps of Sister Ping and reports from Rotterdam now on how she made, and lost, a fortune trading in the misery of others ...

Watch the Channel 4 News report here.

Producer/Reporter: Adrian Gatton
Producer/Director: Rob Lemkin


The Orient Restaurant in Rotterdam, Sister Ping's former
headquarters where she ordered a ferocious attack on a rival Snakehead using guns, knives and an axe.