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A gang who forced vulnerabld Eastern Europeans into slavdry | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
in Plymouth has been found guilty of human trafficking offencds. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
The five Czech nationals made hundreds of thousands of potnds | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
when they made the men work in factories, car washes | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
The victims were beaten and faced death threats. | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
The gang members will be sentenced on Friday. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent Simon Hall. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
The gang's victims were forced to sleep in cupboards and g`rages, | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
They were even charged ?1 a time to use the toilet. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
This note demanding payment was stuck to the door. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
Most of the victims' earnings were kept by the gang. | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Here one member brandishes some of the money she has just whthdrawn | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
It was shocking in terms of the conditions they were kept under. | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
I think the interesting thing within this case was the control. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
The organised crime that took away their access to fundamdntal | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
rights and fundamental access to money, to food, | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
to contact and that social cohesion, it was that control | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Victims were trafficked by the gang from the Czech Republic | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
They were then forced into domestic slavery, cleaning, cooking | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
and doing laundry, or to work in factories and car washes. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
They were also told to shoplift and commit benefit fraud to make | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Police estimate dozens of mdn were trafficked over | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
a period of several years, making the gang hundreds | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
In their enquiries across Plymouth here and much of Devon and Cornwall, | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
the police found victims were being forced to work 12 hours | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
a day, six days a week but only given pocket money to live on. | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
Some were left so hungry they were seen foraging in bins | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
for food, while members of the gang wore designer clothes. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
The gang were also happy to humiliate their victims, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
making them sleep next to expensive toys they had bought | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
for their children and wash their cars until they were spotless | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
Ruzena Tancosova was the le`der of the gang, described | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Petr Tancos was the muscle, using a baseball bat to ass`ult | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Nela Dzurkova helped transport the victims and take | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Martin Tancos was responsible for finding victims | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
Katerina Kurejova housed thd victims and helped to control them. | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
They were certainly living `n easy life on other people's monex. | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
They were happy to do that, they were happy to exploit these | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
people, and they were happy just to let them slip | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
It is the cynicism which seems really quite hard | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
for us to understand, but it was definitely going on. | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
The family were finally caught in a series of police raids after two | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
victims went to the authorities to try to escape. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
It is a mark of the gang's ruthlessness and the cynicism that | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
all their victims were vulndrable - drug addicts, alcoholics | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Well, our reporter Janine Jansen joins us now. | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
How widespread is modern day slavery? | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
They have seen more victims referred to them and ever before and in the | :03:25. | :03:49. | |
last five years they have hdlped more than ?4005 4500 victim 's. | :03:50. | :04:01. | |
Today's cases not isolated. There are dozens like it in Devon and | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
Cornwall. The police think they slavery is horrific and everyone | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
needs to be better at spotthng it and reporting it. | :04:11. | :04:11. | |
We have to raise and have raised our game, but equallx we have | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
We have to hunt down the slavers in a way | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
that is ethical and within the law, but we need community intelligence | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
and we are also putting mord dedicated assets into this, | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
because trafficking in human beings is not about foreign nation`ls, | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
it is about UK nationals and it is about people. | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
It is someone's mother, son, father, daughter that is being subjtgated | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
in a way that we have not sden since nearly almost Roman thmes | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
It is inhumane and these are the communities, | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Devon and Cornwall, that have stepped up and said this | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
is unacceptable, so let's m`ke this a place where modern | :04:51. | :04:52. | |
Police are there to help but how does somebody subjected to lodern | :04:53. | :05:03. | |
day slavery still confident to come forward? If they have a phone they | :05:04. | :05:10. | |
can ring the police helplind or if they can go online, they can get | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
hold of the Salvation Army. Some of the victims, from countries that do | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
not trust the police, or ask your neighbour. If you can walk `way the | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
police say they will help you get to safety. | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
The first child refugees from the Jungle camp in Cal`is have | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
started to arrive at a centre in North Devon. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
20 teenagers arrived by coach at a respite centre in the darly | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
Devon County Council says up to 70 are expected altogether | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
and Cornwall Council has confirmed it will take ten young | :05:42. | :05:43. | |
From the depths of the Jungle camp of northern France | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
At three in the morning, 20 child migrants arrived | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
These children are in a pretty poor state and so they need all the help | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
they can get to make sure they are fit to move | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
Devon County Council is asshsting the Home Office which is organising | :06:06. | :06:12. | |
It got off to a controversi`l start when some questioned the agd | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
The MP for the area said he spoke to the Home Secretary personally. | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
I am assured that these children will have been screened, | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
they will not be suspected of being over 18, any suspected | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
will be retained in London, they will not be coming to Devon. | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
Torrington is the nearest town to the temporary centre | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
I came here as an immigrant myself and was welcomed with open `rms | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
not nearly from a traumatic background but please, | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
more should be welcome, we have room here. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
With young children, I don't have a problem, | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
but if they are young men that are coming here to work | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
here and to reap our benefits system, that is wrong. | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
It emerged that Cornwall Cotncil has agreed to take some child mhgrants. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
We have been in negotiations with the Home Office and Sotth West | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
councils and we will take up to ten 16-17 year olds up to April. | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
In the next few days, more child migrants will be | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
He was a very much loved local bobby on the beat and today a building has | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
PC Andy Hocking, who died stddenly aged 52, was known by almost | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
When he died last year, thousands of people marched | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
through the streets of the town as a sign of respect. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
A building at Police Headqu`rters Middlemoor has been named after him, | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
because he epitomised everything that is good about | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
He engaged with everyone wh`tever background they came from, | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
whether it was the rich, whether it was the poor, | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
whether it was a street cleaner or the local MP. | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
He spoke to everyone in the same manner. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
There's been some heavy rain across the South West today. | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
There were traffic problems in West Cornwall when the volume | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
of water forced mud onto the road at the Ponsharden | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
There has continued to be some heavy rain this evening, thunder, | :08:26. | :08:42. | |
lightning. It is very unple`sant. Good evening. There is a bit more | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
heavy rain to come. This evdning we will see the last of the he`vy | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
stuff. They're after it becomes mainly dry again as we see `n area | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
of high pressure turned up. But at the moment there is some he`vy rain. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
The big picture for the next five or six days, it is mostly dry. It will | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
turn milder with higher temperatures but also the increasing risk of fog | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
and mist. We have some of that overnight the night. Eventu`lly we | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
pressure turned up. It is thereby pressure turned up. It is thereby | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
the middle of the week and this area of high pressure stays with us. It | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
is here for Thursday, Fridax and takes charge of the weather across | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
southern England for the wedkend. Air coming up from the south | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
bringing us higher temperattres so it will turn Mulder. Let's focus on | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
that rain. The brighter colours here, that is where the heavy bursts | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
have been. Still a bit more to come so if you are travelling, pretty | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
awful driving conditions. The next few hours turning quite misty. Most | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
of the rain gone by the morning but it will take its time beford it | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
finally clears. Very stagnant air. Nothing moving quickly so it is | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
great, misty and damp to st`rt with tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow we | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
will start to see an improvdment from the West. Parts of Cornwall | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
seeing the sunshine fast and temperatures of 15, possiblx 16 | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
degrees. By the time we get to Wednesday, mist, low cloud `nd some | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
fog first thing. That should clear and then some sunny spells `nd the | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
rest of the day mainly dry. That is the way the week goes. More mist and | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
fog towards the end of the week which will be slow to clear. Weather | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
and travel updates on your local radio station tomorrow mornhng. From | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
us here, good night. around 60 degrees. Towards the | :10:55. | :11:02. | |
weekend, more of the same, mainly dry and feeling very mild. Now your | :11:03. | :11:03. | |
national weather. Good evening, major changes in the | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
weather over the next couple of days, the result being it will turn | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
milder by day and also by night A breeze picking up, a westerly, | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
something we have not seen much of this month. But there will not be a | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
great deal of rain around. We did have rain today across the | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
south-west, leaden skies in Bristol, not much of a sunset here, but the | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
different North of the border. Fiery skies here and it is turning chilly, | :11:36. | :11:46. | |
a frost in the Highlands. Underneath the clear skies. Across Southern | :11:47. | :11:48. | |
parts of England into the Midlands and parts of Wales, more cloud. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Patchy rain towards the South East. Heavy at at times along the South | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
coast but temperatures do not fall much. Northern Wales and | :11:55. | :11:55. |