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using an undercover team we tracked down one smuggler to this large gated house. that mandela. that. i research is posed as a couple hoping to live in britain. that the last. remark. but what. are you talking about. the smuggler makes it sound easy the journey is full with danger and it costs a lot of money. that i thought that. early last. hurrah for.
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a job that. although we found no evidence of slavery we discovered someone who'd been smuggled from vietnam. the shop owner sister had just been brought in illegally. to find a leg of a journey from france to the lorry was the hottest. on record. for the. money the reason was how many days after our high off. and longer angry young let me know that i am leaving him to tell me that. you know that it particularly. if you're not going to one of the other half of this. the nail barona describes the roots used by his sister. in law the popular. tell you the company that. i want on down on my bike and.
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how many of you that. we. are happy. that. you know that. the smuggled women may be free to walk away but without legal status or knowledge of english they're often tied to their employers . smuggled vietnamese men often end up in the different trade. can make contact online with a man who'd become a gardener at a cannabis farm. he's kept inside an already looking terraced house on
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a suburban st. bernard . the man tending these kind of his plants hardly ever leaves the house there's no furniture just rows of plants he breathes in fumes from chemical fertilisers snatches a few hours sleep on an old mattress and lives in fear of his boss the police and on thoughts who want to steal the drugs. he. wanted. a lot more and more.
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i don't know. who are beaten in one. like others toiling in britain's cannabis houses he believes he will earn a lot of money but so far it's a distant promise. the. research it keeps in contact with the gardner later will see her enter the kind of his house to meet in. the scale of bonded labor in britain led to a new law the modern slavery act introduced in 2015. it
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defined modern slavery not in terms of shackles and chains but forced labor force criminality and any servitude obtained with threats deception or violence. the government also appointed an anti slavery commissioner kevin hyland recently returned from vietnam he went to the area where we met our people smuggler. there was a network operator. in that region who are exploiting people who start off as being smuggled then as they knew that turns into a case of traffic because that becomes a debt and then they get moved into the situation for example kind of this. even. situation where there are exploited and being forced to work in some very dangerous situation. the government estimates that there are around $13000.00 more than slaves in britain
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with the largest numbers from romania albania nigeria vietnam and from britain itself. the assessment that we did in 2014 gave us 97 different countries the victims came from that gives you a sense of that scale 97 different countries have been identified. there's no doubt that the scale of modern slavery in the u.k. is enormous we're just seeing you might even say just the tip of the iceberg. and reed is the anti trafficking director at the salvation army since 2011 the charity is run government funded safe houses for victims of modern slavery. in the 1st year there was $380.00 but just in the last 6 months we've seen over a 1000 victims come into the service a total of over $4000.00 people been referred to the salvation army for support.
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yeah yeah to get out of date as the global market for human cargo increased prostitution was the 1st industry to be exploited by modern slave traders. stephan didn't plan to be a pimp he wanted to be a rapper. part of help with groucho on a long trip to south of the gold for more for good as above board of a part of. one day he was offered the chance to exploit his dances. opera much of them were more of an example for more than one would have printed more than one box was your boardroom block with about 3 with. so boresome reporters been going to be able to come to the bar to see. what appear in austin and. that was the start of
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4 years as a pin exploiting young women in cities all over europe. anna comes from a poor family in western romania she was just 16 when she was forced to be a prostitute. i feel terrible when i think about the day when i was 1st. to drink and take drugs with. it began when the remaining 8 months. he said it was for a holiday but then he ordered ana to sell sex. she tried to refuse. he became very angry and he took me. to beat me.
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it was the beginning of 11 years as a sex slave locked in dingy apartments and cheap hotel rooms. she was controlled by her ex-boyfriend his brother and also by a woman she refers to only as. i wasn't paid any money because of badly used to keep. their thought i was their slave making money for them making them happy. slavery is at its halt the buying and selling of a human being the traffickers are often very ruthless no holds barred anything goes. stephanie eventually spent 2 years in prison for a.t.m.
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fraud and now has a legitimate job in london. he's agreed to take us into his former world exposing the men and women who drag others into sexual slavery. he meets a romanian paint called robert. for. robert talks business with stephan in his car a car he didn't even have to buy. for. a. while. he runs a handful of prostitutes from eastern europe. they work all night. 6 6 long you know. they know
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what's in the old one 0. god. controls their lives but says he really needs to use physical violence. and work through issues to work together because. creditors deacon letting out my pick. for book. can. really. be universally fucking good to sleep through see. if this is true for regional sports or i'll. be the 1st reader to disagree we know many cars go between. the think where the parks are very quickly from a home. in addition to some felons we also see
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in direct threats if you don't do as well i tell you something i think you'll find the home will be targeted we know where your children are we know where your mother lives and if you don't do what we tell you then they'll be real trouble. and as controlled as subjected her to both mental and physical abuse for years they trafficked her all over europe to austria spain and then bristle. at the decision by it's my god they brought such a guys to me to sleep with them then they tied me to the bed then the guys did their job my madam was very happy she was telling me that this is how i like it. i don't like it. police rescued from a hotel in west london in march 24th. but it was not the end.
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she returned to romania controllers tracked her down bundled her into a call. back to england. i wanted to escape from there and breakdowns a door. they couldn't find. i was very scared. they turned over the light and told me to do what the clients wanted because if i didn't i don't deserve even to eat. they give me called what are they tortured me. they beat me up with a belt and said i was there a slave. i . was taken to leeds in the north of england locked in
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a hotel room and forced once again to be a prostitute. that i was main and thinking it was not worth being controlled by them anymore it was better to take my own life. to the firm of modern slavery that's growing faster than prostitution we reveal how big business in britain could be profiting from modern slavery. slavery is happening all around us it's in our communities people tend to perceive it as sexual exploitation but actually modern slavery takes on many forms 3 or 4 years ago we would have told you that sex trafficking is the major area of trafficking we now know that trafficking for labor is about $5050.00 with trafficking for circs.
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the headlines the news continues after al-jazeera investigations. our investigation has found that the fastest growing sector of britain's modern slave trade is unskilled labor. in part one or undercover a search to make contacts we face book with a vietnamese man who grows cannabis for a drugs gang. alone isolated and speaking no english he invites her into the cannabis farm.
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there's no furniture in the suburban house just rows of plants growing on the powerful lights. being made me think that i mean what you don't know how. it's not unusual to find the my new electricity has been tampered with she's highly dangerous you know you're risking your life and then you stay in conditions where your preventing so the pollen from the cannabis plants window is a tight top and everything is running as usual and extracts a fine weave you think you know it's everywhere to grow the crop. horrendous conditions. from now though i don't think what. i mean headline so much of the down and. down the fish almost
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like you know. you like me or i'm going to. get me. to name. going to. go ok i'll go. off to our research the leaves the only other visitor to the house is a man who drops off food and supplies late at night. days later another man comes to collect the drugs harvest. it's a typical set up for vietnamese cannabis god. they are kept in a house with no way of getting out there looked in and there are so sago coal to voting those crops with food brought to them they are not allowed to get out and about and leave those premises. cannabis farms want to face isn't one day
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slavery me ok the. dependent on the labor of the vulnerable and the dispossessed. chandra is a leading lawyer in the field of modern slavery we showed her the evidence from our investigation. certainly appears to be an indication that the man may be a victim of modern day slavery he has no regularly receiving profit but he's hoping to receive that i think his words were when i have money i'll move to another joe say this person may be a victim of human trafficking for enforced criminality. the new slavery law change the way the police treat the vulnerable. one of the good things about the modern slavery act is actually recognizing that they are victims of trafficking as
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opposed to actually be perpetrators of crime kind of us cultivation. illegal testis why the north somebody is a victim and not a pet traitor of this crime of cannabis cultivation is whether or not they were the dominant force of the traffickers. sesame from this footage i would hope. that the person who has been filmed would be referred into the national referral mechanism and then they would be able to achieve assistance and protection. if they had been trafficked. for one victim there was a way out. was just 15 when he was forced to work at a kind of his house in brazil. more can
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i be paying almost one day i saw lots of people outside shouting i just stood there. and when they forced the door open carry me and shouted police i was very happy because the police had arrived to get my hands to the offices to one car. at that point i thought i'd been freed i was very happy. but if you go you know and you know what if you only know. the vulnerable teenager was placed with a foster family but his liberty was short lived. out shopping with his foster mother one day he got lost in the crowds. unable to ask for help in english and with night for lee he started to panic. he was approached by a chinese man who seemed friendly. at 1st when they took me
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to their home and he promised to help me find my foster mother but when i got there they locked me in side after 6 months they made me work cannabis plants. don't work i couldn't chappie how did that happen. without a bang or when they died to beat me you know tied me up with a rope and hung me up. that i was chained in a lorry i wasn't allowed to go outside and after i finished work they locked me in a van and took me back to the warehouse. chain me up and made me stay in the. county. he worked up to 20 hours a day with no pay slept in a van and was given just bread and potatoes to eat. and slaved as a child traffic to britain rescued and then enslaved again finally escaped and was
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placed in the care of a charity. instead of framed every night thinking of the days when i was beaten and locked in warehouses. the police estimate that there are tens of thousands of commercial kind of these farms all over britain. the gardeners inside include many slavery victims who were forced to commit crime and remain hidden from view. britain has also seen a huge rise in the number of exploited people working in plain sight on the high streets of affluent towns and cities. at this car wash prices stuff in just 6 pounds around 10 us dollars.
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but how going to be so cheap. claudio says he knows he came from romania and worked at the car wash for 5 months . he agreed to secretly fill the workers conditions. he starts with their accommodation temporary cabins where up to 6 people sleep in a small room. r.h. . can grow mistrust. both die each. day
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but i'm. going to get. one of the workers calls a friend in romania. who are very much our buffalo pretty rough bookie and work. people may be coming to this country voluntarily they may be thinking that they're coming for a job only to find a job isn't what they thought it was going to pay or that they're being kept in absolutely appalling conditions they're not getting the salary that they were promised then there are deductions for travel for accommodation for transit to work and all of that sort of thing so they are going to. the car wash owner is a lazy 35 year old albanian with british citizenship one of the tricks of his trade
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seems to be keeping his work is in debt and taking the travel documents the workers say he imposes huge fines for minor damage to cause in one case 600 pounds in another 800. or. so yes it was published in a. lot. of help a lot more than on t.v. but. i think it. was your view that's not what it. was.
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