“Iain Duncan Smith is to warn about the threat posed by human trafficking as the think tank he founded launches a review of efforts to combat slavery.”
BBC News, 15th June 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A major inquiry into human trafficking will be launched this week amid claims that slavery remains as much of a problem in modern Britain as when it was abolished more than 200 years ago.”
The Observer, 12th June 2011
Source: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/
“A mother has been jailed for seven years for attempting to sell her baby for £35,000.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has been ordered to pay £5,000 each to four women for failing to investigate allegations of slavery.”
BBC News, 2oth May 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The sexual grooming of children in the UK is a much bigger problem than has previously been recognised, the government has said.”
The Guardian, 17th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Moldovan woman who was a victim of sex trafficking and forced into prostitution has obtained substantial damages from the Home Office.”
BBC News, 11th April 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A charity is calling on the Home Office to halt the forced deportation of a trafficked Ghanian woman who was forced into prostitution and who is HIV positive.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A former hospital director has been convicted of trafficking a woman from Tanzania to Britain and using her as a ‘slave’, in the first case of its kind to come before a court.”
The Guardian, 17th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Government to close special police units and rebuff EU moves to protect victims and target criminal gangs.”
The Independent, 6th February 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A father and son were today convicted of trafficking women into Britain from Romania and forcing them to work as prostitutes.”
The Guardian, 18th January 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Regina v M(L) and Others; Regina v Tabot; Regina v Tijani [2010] EWCA Crim 2327 ; [2010] WLR(D) 266
“Where a person was a victim of human trafficking, for the purposes of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (CETS No 197), and whilst retaining some nexus with the trafficking committed an offence which arguably called, in the public interest, for prosecution, the decision whether to prosecute depended on whether the offence committed was serious enough to call for prosecution, which in turn depended on all the circumstances of the case, the gravity of the offence alleged, the degree of continuing compulsion, and the alternatives reasonably available to the defendant. The prosecution was not obliged by art 10 of the Convention to advise a defendant’s solicitors of the availability of human trafficking referral agencies or to refer a represented defendant to those agencies, unless there were something unusual about the defendant’s case, but were obliged to remind the defendant’s solicitors of the existence of those agencies.”
WLR Daily, 25th October 2010
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“A couple who tried to smuggle 2 illegal immigrants into Britain in the boot of their hire car have been jailed.”
UK Border Agency, 21st October 2010
SOurce: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk
“An Iranian gang who tried to sell young female virgins to wealthy Arabs charging up to £150,000 a girl, was jailed for sex trafficking and prostitution today.”
The Guardian, 14th September 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A mother who brought men into the country to work as ‘slaves’ in her award-winning Indian restaurant has been jailed for three years.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A doctor who smuggled a woman into Britain to work for her has become the first person in Britain to be charged with modern-day slavery.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Men who use brothels are escaping a new law intended to crack down on the coercion of women into prostitution, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 18th August 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A Romanian couple who exploited their seven children as beggars and thieves in and around London have been jailed at Reading crown court for two and a half years for child cruelty.”
The Guardian, 30th July 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) today began a public consultation on its Public Policy Statement on Human Trafficking.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 29th July 2010
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Measures to protect victims of people smuggling are ‘not fit for purpose’ and may be illegal, a report claimed today.”
The Independent, 16th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A man who claimed he was a human rights activist was jailed for six years today after he smuggled 20 illegal immigrants across the Channel in a 50ft yacht.”
The Independent, 26th March 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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