24/05/2016 BBC Wales Today


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Three members of the same family have been jailed for

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what the police have described as modern day slavery.

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And the future of thousands of jobs in the Welsh steel industry -

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a proposed management buy-out hasn't yet raised enough money according

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Three members of the same family have been jailed for more than 24

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years for what the police have described as modern day slavery.

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Patrick Joseph Connors, his son Patrick Dean Connors

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and nephew William Connors had denied charges including forcing

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A fourth man, Lee Carbis, was jailed for kidnap.

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Cardiff Crown Court heard that the victim and a second man

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were kept in "horrific" living conditions and hunted down

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They came to court denying all charges against them.

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The prosecution said Patrick Joseph Connors had bought

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a man and controlled him for more than 20 years,

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beating him and kidnapping him whenever he tried to escape.

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When he stepped back from the family business, his son,

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Patrick Dean Connors, and nephew William Connors,

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would seek his permission to put the man, Michael Hughes, to work.

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The court heard evidence from two victims, Michael Hughes

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The conditions in which they were expected to live were atrocious,

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The police said their treatment showed a total

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It is about how they were treated, they were used

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The court heard how Patrick Joseph Connors ran

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The prosecution said he chose customers who were vulnerable

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and charged them inflated prices, while he paid the two men

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One of them finally went to the police after seeing

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television coverage about Darrell Simester,

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who was found after 13 years missing, and whose case sparked

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If a ten or 11 or a 15-year-old boy has an argument at home

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and thinks his parents are picking on him and walks away

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from the situation, he could find himself in exactly the same

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situation as Darrell, approached by a couple of these people,

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and being told that "We will look after you, find you something to do,

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"you will be all right with us we will look after you,

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His case was, says the man who coordinates the Welsh Government

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anti-slavery policy, a wake up call for Wales.

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He told me reports of modern slavery are increasing, last year up to 134.

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Here in Wales, people are prepared now to make that call

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Of course, people who are enslaved, the victims, they now

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We have always said that we want to send that message of hope out

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there that we are here, that we will rescue

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Sentencing, the judge said Michael Hughes had been sold

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to Paddy Connors and had conditioned to be a serf.

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He said he'd carried out the kidnappings to bring

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All victims of modern day slavery are given the automatic

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Nevertheless the authorities hope their stories will encourage

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other people to report their experiences or suspicions.

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A doctor who had previously worked in a North Wales hospital has joined

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Issam Abuanza left his home in Sheffield in 2014.

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Dr Abuanza worked at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd from 2007 to 2009

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and is believed to be the first NHS doctor to join the militant group.

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A proposed management buy-out of Tata Steel's UK operations hasn't

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yet raised enough money according to the First Minister.

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Carwyn Jones made the comments during First Minister's Questions

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He's flying to Mumbai tonight for talks with Tata bosses over

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the future of thousands of jobs in Wales.

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Here's our political editor, Nick Servini.

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It is another crucial point for the future of steel as Tata

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decides which bidders will go to the final stage

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Up to three companies are expected to be selected from several

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in the running for plants that include Port Talbot and Shotton.

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Among those in the frame is a potential management buyout

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team called Excalibur led by the Tata director

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Stuart Wilkie, and Liberty Steel, which already has an operation in

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The First Minister welcomed reports that they would

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The management buyout option contains a lot of technical

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expertise but has not yet raised the money.

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Liberty are a substantial business but have not normally been involved

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I look forward to witnessing how it progresses.

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I hope, tomorrow, Tata will look carefully at the bids

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and will consider strongly the option of the management buyout,

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On the face of it, this was a remarkably revealing statement

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from the First Minister about the financial status of a bid

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Indeed, a statement later released from the Welsh Government comes

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close to suggesting he shouldn't have said it, saying any details

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of the bid are strictly confidential and a matter between

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Plaid Cymru's Adam Price responded to the comments saying

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the First Minister should be better briefed if he's going to be

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While the management buyout team Excalibur said tonight

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it was unable to respond to what they First Minister said

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because of the conditions that had been imposed on it

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Elsewhere in First Minister's Questions,

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the first of the new term, the Presiding Officer Elin Jones

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told of Neil Hamilton for calling the Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams

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and the Plaid leader Leanne Wood political concubines last week,

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which drew this response from the Ukip Assembly Member.

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I thought that the image that I conjured up was sufficiently

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ludicrous not to be taken seriously by anybody.

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I might have said something like the Liberals and

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Plaid Cymru getting into bed with Labour.

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At this point, I don't want to rerun last week's contribution,

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so I think it would be better in your own interests

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to draw your remarks to a close now and for us to move on.

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It was also the first opportunity for Carwyn Jones to show

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off his new Cabinet in the chamber and to state clearly

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that the Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams would be

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bound by collective responsibility in the Labour Cabinet.

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But domestic affairs will be replaced by the state

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of the international steel industry tonight,

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as the First Minister flies out to Mumbai.

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Football, and police say up to half a million fans from Britain

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are expected to travel to France for Euro 2016 - around half

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There will be a ban on alcohol in the centre of Lens, where Wales

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take on England next month, although alcohol will still be

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Fans without tickets have already been told not to travel

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Let's see what the weather has in store.

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There will be cooler conditions to which the weekend. Feeling chilly

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out and about. That is associated with a weather front sneaking into

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parts of the north-east. Further south clearer skies. Down to three

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Celsius. Tomorrow this weather front to the east is bringing quite a bit

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of cloud to Wales but also some rain in East Anglia and it will reach us

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by tomorrow night. First thing tomorrow, early morning sunshine.

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Cloud increasing from the north-east. The best sunshine will

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be at cross parts of Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire. The risk of a

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shower across the North in the afternoon. There is rain across East

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Anglia. Further north and south it is drier but a lot more cloud

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compared to today with temperatures between ten and. Tomorrow afternoon

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it is a dry picture for Wales but it is cooler than today. 11 to 14

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Celsius with rain into the north-east late afternoon into

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tomorrow night. Tomorrow night we have rain. Further south it is a

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case of clear skies. A little bit chilly here. Temperature is not

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dropping as much as tonight. At its lowest around eight Celsius. A

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cloudy start on Thursday morning. Some rain across the North of Wales.

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Light and patchy as that front will linger on. Further south through

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Thursday it will be drier and brighter. Towards the end of the

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week the best of the sunshine will be across South Wales but there is

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also a risk of a few thundery showers and that will continue into

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the weekend. Warm but the risk of showers. Thank you. We are back from

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six o'clock tomorrow morning. Thank you for watching. From all of us on

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the programme, good night.

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