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EU expansion might bring more profits to the big business friends of Labour and please those who are working to create a United States of Europe but it has brought with it not just a Polish deli in every town and a flood of migrant workers forcing British people out of jobs but a horrific rise in drug related prostitution throughout rural Britain where young girls from Eastern Europe are sold and exchanged as sex slaves.
An investigation by The Times has revealed international, mostly Russian based, human traffickers are luring girls to the UK from Lithuania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic with the promise of well paid jobs. On arrival the girls have their passports removed and sold to a brothel owner for about £2,000, enslaved to pay off that money and controlled by the threat and reality of violence.
The report cites towns in Cambridgeshire – Peterborough, Wisbech, March, Huntingdon and Cambridge, 80 have been raided in the county so far this year. Even the quintessentially English towns of Cheltenham and Leamington Spa have seen police move in to shut down brothels. “If you can find it Cheltenham, you can find it anywhere,” said Tim Brain, Chief Constable of Gloucestershire and a national police spokesman on the issue. “I’m expecting we will uncover a lot more.”
Investigations have uncovered evidence of auctions in Peterborough where men – gang bosses and brothel owners – buy and sell women for between £500 and £3,000. The women are then virtual prisoners in rented houses in residential areas such as New England and Millfield, just north of the city centre. They are afraid to go out and receive none of the money paid by their “clients”.
Newspapers profit
Local newspapers appear to be directly profiting from the inclusion of adverts for this sick trade in vulnerable young women. A BNP correspondent found adverts for “Eastern European massage” in the “Adult Services” of the classified ads section of the East Anglian Daily Times, part of the Norwich based Archant Group. The ads talk of “dreamgirls”, “beautiful young European girls” and “ladies new to the area” and give mobile telephone numbers. Other ads have been reported in the Ipswich Evenng Star (Archant) and Peterborough Telegraph (Johnston Press),
The international brother owners frequently use violence against the women and keep them hooked on cheap heroin. A 16-year-old trafficking victim was driven to the centre of Peterborough and dumped on the street after her pimp discovered that she was pregnant.
Another woman rescued from a brothel said that security guards at the house showed her a sword and baseball bat and said she would be beaten and stabbed if she tried to escape.
In this climate of fear, detectives face a huge problem amassing evidence and persuading victims to give evidence against those who run the brothels. Despite all the raids in Cambridgeshire, only one man has been charged under trafficking legislation. Operation Radium is, however, continuing and the police believe they have identified several criminal gangs.
The police expect little help from the men who use the brothels, most of whom come from the tens of thousands of migrant workers employed in the “picking and packing” industries in Fenland’s fields and food factories.
The increase in sex trafficking appears to have gone hand-in-hand with the surge in immigration in East Anglia that led Cambridgeshire’s Chief Constable, Julie Spence, to demand more money to police a rapidly increasing population. Last week Mrs Spence said that ministers were not taking account of the effect that a rise in immigration was having on policing. She said Cambridgeshire had become a staging post for immigrants, partly because farm work was readily available.
Mrs Spence said the effect of immigration growth seeped into all areas of policing. Foreigners got into difficulties because they were unfamiliar with traffic laws; investigations into crime could involve trips abroad to interview relatives; police had also noticed a growth in prostitution, driven by the influx of large numbers of single men. She said bills for interpreters employed to help police to process suspects and question witnesses had shot up.
The full report in today’s Times can be found http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2547626.ece.