While you are quoting The Times Jim, always quote the full story, don't cut little bits out to suit your case. Did you not see this ????

"Too many of Britain's travellers behave in a manner entirely unacceptable to society at large. Those with homes close to traveller sites too often live in fear of burglary or violence. Frequently, travellers have muddied the waters between being victims of dislike and distrust, and deserving of it.

The discovery of an alleged organised crime and slavery ring operating from traveller sites is a whole new category of horror. From a corpse found in a wood, to captives allegedly held at Greenacres site in Leighton Buzzard on a starvation diet, the details of the latest revelations are horrific. But the horrifying spectre of slavery in the English countryside has risen, in part, because of a wariness on the part of authorities to meddle in traveller affairs, and a willingness, on the part of travellers, to exploit this. "