[net-gold] SLAVERY : COUNTRIES: GREAT BRITAIN : POLICE : ARRESTS: Leighton Buzzard 'Slave' Empire Uncovered in Major Police Raid
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- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
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SLAVERY :
COUNTRIES: GREAT BRITAIN :
POLICE :
ARRESTS: Leighton Buzzard
'Slave' Empire Uncovered in Major Police Raid
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'Slave' Empire Uncovered in Major Police Raid
Five arrests made after 24 men released from caravan site, some held in
virtual captivity for up to 15 years
Alexandra Topping
Guardian.co.uk
Sunday 11 September 2011 19.35 BST
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/
2011/sep/11/leighton-buzzard-slaves-released
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Twenty-four modern day slaves were released from bondage on Sunday after a
pre-dawn police raid found them emaciated, hungry and living in "filthy
and cramped" conditions on a caravan site in Leighton Buzzard.
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The men Poles, Romanians and Russians as well as British had been forced
to survive in a "state of virtual slavery" at the Green Acres caravan
site, according to Bedfordshire police.
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The men varied in age from about 20 to 50 years old; all vulnerable men
who had been recruited from homeless shelters and dole queues. Some are
believed to have been in virtual captivity for up to 15 years.
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Five people four men and a woman were arrested in the swoop on the
mainly Traveller site at 5.30am on Sunday. The raid, involving 200
officers including armed police, dog units and a police helicopter,
followed a long-running undercover operation. When police arrived at the
site, which is estimated to have around 10-12 family sized plots, they
discovered men they believe had been coerced into forced labour.
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One had dog excrement on his clothes, and many were starving, said
Detective Chief Inspector Sean O'Neil, of the Bedfordshire and
Hertfordshire major crime unit, which was aided by officers from the UK
Human Trafficking Centre.
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He explained that the men had not received payment for physically
demanding labouring jobs, were hardly fed and were given no clothes. If
they complained they faced beatings.
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"The men we found at the site were in a poor state of physical health and
the conditions they were living in were shockingly filthy and cramped.
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"We believe that some of them had been living and working there in a state
of virtual slavery, some for just a few weeks and others for up to 15
years."
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They have now been taken to a medical centre where their health is being
assessed.
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Police said some of the men will have to be carefully re-introduced to a
proper diet; giving them a large amount to eat immediately could prove
dangerous, as their bodies have existed on meagre rations for such a long
period of time.
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"This was a recruitment centre where people down on their luck were
brought to," said O'Neil. "They had been found in soup kitchens and
benefit offices and told they would be given work, clothing, a home and
food.
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These were people who might be alcoholics or have no family support, which
made them easy prey.
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12 September 2011 Last updated at 14:55 ET
Bedfordshire 'slaves' case:
Four men charged More than 200 police officers took part in the raid
Four men have been charged after an inquiry into men being kept as slaves
at a travellers' site in Bedfordshire.
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14891461
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Tommy Connors, 30; Patrick Connors, 19; James Connors, 34, and James
Connors, 23, all of the Greenacres caravan site, have been charged with
conspiracy to hold a person in servitude and requiring them to perform
forced labour.
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They will appear at Luton Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.
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Ongoing investigation
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Adrian Roberts, head of the CPS Thames and Chiltern Complex Casework Unit,
said: "These charges relate to four victims who allege they have been held
against their will and forced to live and work like slaves.
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"Police investigations into other offences relating to other potential
victims at Greenacres are ongoing, further to the police raid on Sunday,
11 September."
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A pregnant woman, who was also arrested, has been released on bail.
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More than 200 officers raided the travellers' site at Great Billington at
05:30 BST on Sunday.
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The move was part of a long-running investigation by Bedfordshire Police
which suggested the men were being held in poor conditions and forced to
work for no pay.
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