suffocated

But they kept the faith, kept flying up in defence and, a year later, stepped up to lift the Rugby World Cup, having suffocated their way to the title.

I cannot, for example, rid my heart of the story of Samantha Casiano, a mother who was excited to have another baby, only to learn that the baby wouldn’t survive—but because she lived in Texas, Casiano carried to term, gave birth, and then held her daughter Halo as she slowly suffocated to death.

“They suffocated themselves, basically,” Mr. Bianco said.

A few years later, the same gang - no longer linked to Thanh, he says - would be involved in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were discovered, suffocated, inside a lorry trailer in Essex.

“Suddenly, at 2:30 in the morning, I woke up feeling suffocated and started screaming for help. I then found my older brother searching for me under the rubble, telling me that the house had been bombed,” he said.