13 Count Modern Slavery Trial

Our client faced 13 counts of conspiracy to hold persons in servitude, conspiracy to require persons to perform forced or compulsory labour and trafficking for exploitation between 2012 and 2019. 

Ten victims were trafficked from the Czech Republic, were put to work in an industrial bakery and a car-wash, and their wages were channelled back to the first defendant through our client’s bank account. He was found guilty of all except one of the counts. 

The trial took place over four months in the beginning of 2024 at Southwark Crown Court