UK’s largest modern slavery gang trafficked more than 400 victims
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Vulnerable victims including homeless people and ex-prisoners forced to live in squalor as they earned ringleaders millions.
By Chris Baynes
A human trafficking ring which made £2m by exploiting hundreds of vulnerable victims has been dismantled following the UK’s largest modern slavery investigation.
More than 400 people – many of them homeless, ex-prisoners or alcoholics – were forced to work for almost nothing after being lured to the west midlands by a well- organised Polish gang.
The ringleaders told victims they would earn good money in the UK but instead placed them in cramped, rat-infested accommodation and forced them to work on farms, rubbish recycling centres and poultry factories.
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