It is hard to believe that in 21st century Britain that people are being kept as slaves and forced to work and starved. Well it is fact, and I am glad to say that the four members of a family of travellers who forced these poor homeless people to work like 'slaves' are behind bars.

William Connors, 50, his wife Breda, 46, their son John, 28, and son in law Miles, 22, threatened and coerced down-and-outs and street drinkers into modern day slavery.


The family forced men to work on laying driveways at addresses throughout the UK.
The 'slaves' were made to dig up driveways using only hand tools and then resurface them with tarmac or block paving.


The charges was brought under a new section introduced last year of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 creating the offence of 'holding another person in slavery or servitude or requiring them to perform forced or compulsory labour.'

Victims of the racket had been made to live in 'virtually uninhabitable' caravans without any facilities while working long hours for no more than £20 a day - and in some cases without any payment at all.

They had been 'kept in slavery and servitude' by violence, threats of violence, withholding of their National Insurance and other documents, debt bondage, and being placed in isolated locations away from contact with other people.

They were given minimal amounts of food. Movements were restricted, mobile phones are not allowed and victims are kept in fear of reprisals if they attempt to leave.

Many of the victims were homeless alcoholics, the most vulnerable in society.
Police observed 22 alleged slaves living at Beggar's Roost caravan site.
They were sent to work in Worcestershire and the West Midlands to tarmac and block paving driveways. Police videos showed that the slaves have minimal clothing, they are always dirty and dishevelled.

Again, the true facts of so called travellers are exposed to the world.

Full story here.

http://m.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370669/4-travellers-held-police-slavery-charges-Gloucestershire.html