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| Britain |
| Charity and police break up UK's largest modern slavery ring |
| 2019-07-06 |
| [Guardian] The largest-ever modern slavery ring uncovered in the UK has been broken up after a three-year investigation into its activities. Some of its 400 victims worked for as little as 50p a day. Their labour earned millions for members of a criminal gang led by a Polish criminal family, which preyed on the homeless, ex-prisoners and alcoholics from Poland. Gang members were jailed on Friday. The gang tricked and then trafficked vulnerable men and women ‐ ranging in age from 17 to over 60 ‐ to Britain with the promise of gainful employment but instead housed them in squalor and used them as what a judge described as "commodities". Working on farms, rubbish recycling centres and poultry factories in the Midlands, they were made to live in cramped, rat-infested accommodation and reduced to going to soup kitchens and food banks to get enough to eat. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 No more Filipino houseboys or kitchen girls for the Saudis? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-06 18:14 |
| #2 All possible thanks to the wonders of the EUSSR. The crime that is. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-06 14:25 |
| #1 The matriarch of the family claimed they'd successfully outwittted "ye' oldè law" since the time of Henry the 8th. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-06 03:40 |