Monday - September 12, 2011
some of our favorite folk in slavery charge.
No time for much more then sharing this ….. on the move.
There’s just no getting away from some of our favorite people. Is there?
Shaven-headed, starved and beaten, the 24 slaves rescued in police raid on travellers’ site - some after 15 years in captivity
Victims lured from soup kitchens, benefit offices and hostels
One suicidal man ‘rescued’ from a bridge and promised a better future
Slaves kept in filthy kennels and horse-boxes - one held for 15 years
Five people from the travellers’ site arrested
By CHRIS GREENWOOD
Last updated at 8:25 AM on 12th September 2011Two dozen modern day slaves held in appalling conditions were rescued when police raided a travellers’ camp yesterday.
About 200 officers stormed the site where the men were being kept in filthy caravans, dog kennels and horseboxes.
Some were starving. The vulnerable victims had been lured from soup kitchens, benefit offices and hostels with promises of paid jobs and shelter.
They were put to work in gruelling manual labouring jobs including paving driveways and clearing rubble because they were deemed cheaper than hiring machinery.
At least one man had been kept as a slave for 15 years. Another was found with dog excrement on his clothes. Investigators are now working to uncover the true scale of the horror amid speculation that there may have been hundreds of victims.
Five travellers – four men and a woman – from the site were arrested for offences under anti-slavery legislation introduced last year. They will be questioned by police today at police stations in Bedfordshire and Hertfodshire. Three more suspects were being hunted last night.
But police are facing searching questions over why they did not act sooner after it emerged that claims of slavery at the site were first made three years ago.
Twenty-eight men have come forward with such allegations since 2008.
The slavery ring was uncovered at Greenacre caravan site, a long-established gipsy site in Billington, near Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire.
Police believe a gang of Irish travellers are behind the shocking racket. They said some victims were kept in kennels and horseboxes.
Detective Chief Inspector Sean O’Neil, who led the dawn raid, said: ‘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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