Police are to investigate claims that children as young as 12 are routinely being sold for sex in one of Scotland’s most deprived areas. Locals in the Govanhill area of
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More than 25 people have been arrested in overnight raids across the UK and Europe as part of an international investigation into an alleged people smuggling ring. Addresses in England,
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Slave drivers and human traffickers have been allowed to carry on offending unchecked because of police failings, a watchdog report has warned. Cases are being shelved prematurely, investigations delayed by
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The scale of modern slavery in the UK is much greater than previously thought, a watchdog has warned. Kevin Hyland, the independent anti-slavery commissioner, described an official estimate suggesting there
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Scores of Vietnamese children rescued from traffickers and put into council care have vanished and are feared to have fallen back into the hands of slave gangs, it is reported.
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A former couple are facing jail after they helped fund their child’s private education by trafficking women into a “sexual conveyor belt” of prostitution across England and Wales. Malaysian Hong
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Signs that could help identify slavery victims are being flagged up as part of a new campaign launched on Wednesday. Crimestoppers and the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) are
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A three-year-old girl was hidden in the boot of a car with two adults as a gang tried to smuggle Albanian nationals into the UK. Six people have been jailed
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The head of a traveller family who helped to run a modern day slavery ring has been jailed for 10 years and nine months. Martin Rooney, aged 57, was among
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A mother-of-four who attempted to smuggle 12 Vietnamese migrants into Britain broke down in court as she was jailed alongside her former boyfriend. Katy Bethel and Aaron Harris, both 28,
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