Argus title : It’s time we lifted the lid on modern slavery to expose the horrors of trafficking in women
In this column I tend to write about people I know – or at least know about. But this time it’s different.
I don’t know the name of the people I’m writing about. I don’t know what they look like or how old they are. I don’t even know for sure where they are, though I’m pretty certain they’re in Brighton.
These are trafficked people, whose bodies and labour are bought and sold by gangmasters and middlemen, pimps and local entrepreneurs. They are brought from abroad and set to work in Britain because there is a ready market here. Some customers want cheap labour. Others have a taste for the compliant bodies of trapped women. Continue reading