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Three arrested after raid on ‘slave’ factory in Rochdale
« on: December 16, 2014, 08:15:26 am »
Three suspected slave masters are under arrest after a raid on a factory rescued 20 eastern Europeans working 80-hour weeks for £25 pay.

The raid on the premises in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, came during an ongoing operation by the authorities against human trafficking.

Three men, aged 51, 43 and 40 were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to require another person to perform forced or compulsory labour and conspiracy to commit trafficking offences.

A 24-year-old man was also arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.

Monday’s raid follows the first stage of Operation Retriever in November, when 15 people across Greater Manchester were arrested and five charged for their involvement in a trafficking ring which sold a pregnant woman into a sham marriage and attempted to trick her into aborting her baby.

Police also found 10 eastern European immigrants living in “terrible conditions” in a house, with up to three or four people sleeping in each room.

Officers discovered these men and women were being taken to work in a factory in Rochdale each day, where they were being paid less than £2 an hour.

When police raided the factory they found a workforce of 20 eastern European immigrants working 80-hour weeks, enforced by the men who owned and ran it.

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