Three Czechs, who exploited their countrymen for several years and forced them to do slave labor in Britain, will spend a total of 26 years in a British prison. A British court sentenced three members of the gang to 13, nine and four years in prison on Friday. Today about that she informed British justice.
British police have been investigating the case since 2019. Three men and one woman were convicted this May of exploiting 12 people from the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The men learned the amount of the punishment on Friday, the court will decide on the punishment for the woman later, the date of the retrial has not yet been set.
The victims were people from vulnerable backgrounds. They were mostly homeless or drug addicts and barely spoke English. They worked either in a fast food restaurant or in a factory that supplied pastries to supermarkets, one woman was forced into prostitution.
Although they earned at least the statutory minimum wage, the gang confiscated almost all of it from them and they received only a fraction of their wages. They lived on a few pounds a day in cramped conditions in a leaky shed and an unheated caravan. The police discovered that the gang financed luxury cars, gold jewelry and real estate in the Czech Republic from their work.
There was already a trial with two other members of the same gang, when one man was sentenced to 12 years and his partner to ten years in prison, he writes Daily Mail.
Source: www.tyden.cz
