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18/10/2013
Human Trafficking Now To Carry Life Sentence
The government have announced new sentencing for those convicted of human trafficking and exploitation, now carrying a maximum life sentence.
It follows a pledge by Home Secretary Theresa May to introduce tougher sanctions after a 25% increase in the number of cases of human trafficking uncovered in the UK.
A report produced by an inter-departmental ministerial group found a 300% increase in trafficking from Albaniacsince 2011, alongside a 171% increase from Lithuania, and 148% increase from Poland.
Victims trafficked into the UK can be forced into becoming sex workers, house slaves or to work in cannabis factories.
(MH/IT)
It follows a pledge by Home Secretary Theresa May to introduce tougher sanctions after a 25% increase in the number of cases of human trafficking uncovered in the UK.
A report produced by an inter-departmental ministerial group found a 300% increase in trafficking from Albaniacsince 2011, alongside a 171% increase from Lithuania, and 148% increase from Poland.
Victims trafficked into the UK can be forced into becoming sex workers, house slaves or to work in cannabis factories.
(MH/IT)
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An organised human trafficking gang, which had been bringing women into the UK and Ireland for prostitution, has been dismantled. The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), in partnership with the PSNI, An Garda Siochana, Dyfed Powys Police and UK Border Agency disrupted the crime gang who were trafficking women from Brazil, Nigeria and Namibia.
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