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December 18, 2013
Life in jail for people traffickers but victims will be spared prosecution as Home Office report says there could be more than 10,000 slaves in Britain today.
Trafficking gang victims who are caught working in a cannabis farm or forced to run a brothel will escape prosecution.
Home Secretary Theresa May announced a blitz on the ‘scarcely believable’ modern slave trade yesterday amid claims there are up to 10,000 UK victims.
A Home Office bill will introduce a maximum sentence of life in prison for human traffickers, and new guidelines will be issued which state victims should not face prosecution.
A review by Labour MP Frank Field says those who commit crimes after being trafficked usually do so ‘at the behest of their controllers’.
It adds: ‘This may be children and young persons compelled into forced labour in cannabis farms and factories; those who are forced to run a brothel as part of their enslavement; or those in possession of false immigration documents.’
Mrs May warned last month of slaves working in nail bars. She said slavery is ‘all around us, hidden in plain sight’.
Home Secretary Theresa May said that it was impossible to know exactly how many people are being held in conditions of servitude in Britain, but referrals to official agencies suggest that the numbers are growing.
The draft Modern Day Slavery Bill, published today, sets out the Government’s plans to tackle the problem of people being trafficked into the UK to work in conditions of slavery.
Thousands of slaves are thought to work in building sites and farms as well as brothels, shops and in domestic servitude.
The bill pulls together into a single act the offences used to prosecute slave-drivers and increases the punishments courts can hand down.
The government has been under pressure to act because fewer than 10 prosecutions are secured each year, despite there being thousands of victims.
Labour MP Frank Field, who has produced a report into slavery for the Home Office, estimates that there are 10,000 victims of slavery in the UK.
