A Roma Gypsy gang has been found guilty of trafficking vulnerable Slovakian women into the UK to sell into sham marriages “like pieces of meat”, Scotland Yard said. The poverty-stricken
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A trafficking victim who was forced into prostitution around Europe after being groomed to believe she was going to be a model has spoken of her relief at finding refuge
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Victims of human trafficking are being let down by the authorities and could fall back into the hands of criminal gangs, a report has warned. The Human Trafficking Foundation (HTF)
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Police and border officials should be more “proactive” in tackling slave trading gangs operating in the UK, according to a former Home Office adviser. In a report for the Centre
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The views of people directly affected by trafficking and slavery are invited by the Justice Committee as part of its call for evidence on the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland)
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Up to 13,000 people in Britain are being held in conditions of slavery, four times the number previously thought, the Home Office has said. In what is said to be
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The Home Secretary has appointed Kevin Hyland as the UK’s first ever Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. Mr Hyland, the former head of the Metropolitan Police’s world renowned Human Trafficking Unit, has
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