Five arrests in 'slavery' raid at UK [travellers] site

mikom

Discodog wrote: »

Or maybe they have been told that the crap will be beaten out of them or their families. They is no way that this could be going on without the whole "camp" knowing - they should arrest the others as accessories.

QFT.
Does anyone really think a non-traveller could enter and stay in the camp without every traveller there knowing about it.

willmunny1990

Discodog wrote: »

Or maybe they have been told that the crap will be beaten out of them or their families. They is no way that this could be going on without the whole "camp" knowing - they should arrest the others as accessories.

Imagine half the camp bring in slaves and the other half dont have a clue..yea right!I agreeThe whole camp should be brought to justice,hiding this crime is just as bad.

biko

Muckie wrote: »

Check out the traveller spokeswoman :pac: in all her neon glory.

http://www.tv3.ie/videos.php?video=39961&locID=1.2

"No slaves here boss"

Watched it twice

Big Nasty

biko wrote: »

Watched it twice

Oh, the mammaries!

steve9859

Channel 4 news reported in its main story tonight that police have confirmed that there have been 'dozens' of raids this year all over England on camps where travellers have been keeping slaves. Seems that it is not rare at all. Maybe its part of this 'culture' that travellers seem so keen to protect

EGAR

Monday 12 September 2011
As police continue their inquiries into how 24 vulnerable people were held and apparently kept as slaves on a Bedfordshire traveller site, Channel 4 News reveals just how widespread the practice is.

Four men and a woman have been arrested for suspected slavery offences at Greenacre travellers' site in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

Around 200 police officers raided the site at 5.30am on Sunday morning and found 24 men in "filthy and cramped" conditions.

The victims were taken to an undisclosed medical reception centre and provided with medical, health and social welfare care.

After receiving immediate help, nine men decided not to support the police in their investigations. Of the 15 men that remain, eight are British, three Polish, one Latvian, one Lithuanian and two men are of unconfirmed nationalities.

The five residents of the site were arrested under the new Slavery and Servitude Act 2010. They are being held at police stations across Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

'State of virtual slavery'

Detective Chief Inspector Sean O'Neil, from the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: "The men we found at the site were in a poor state of physical health and the conditions they were living in were shockingly filthy and cramped.

"We believe that some of them had been living and working there in a state of virtual slavery, some for just a few weeks and other for up to 15 years."

The conditions they were living in were shockingly filthy and cramped.
Detective Chief Inspector Sean O'Neill
The offences being investigated are "extremely serious", he said.

The long-running police investigation into the alleged slavery ring at Greenacre centred around information suggesting a number of people were being held against their will in poor conditions at the site.

A police spokesman told Channel 4 News: "Intelligence that we received earlier this year relating to the site, and our own intelligence gathering, has led us to believe that up to 28 people have passed through the site since 2008."

Slavery and trafficking in the UK

The alleged slavery ring at Greenacres is not the first suspected instance of vulnerable men being held under forced labour. Channel 4 News has uncovered dozens of other unrelated cases in counties across the country, and heard first-hand accounts from some of the poor, dispossessed and usually homeless victims who have been preyed upon and abused.

Four people were arrested in March this year, charged with holding 22 alleged victims in slavery at travellers' sites in Gloustershire and Leicestershire, and forcing them to carry out forced labour.

In a separate incident, three people were arrested in June under charges of alleged slavery at a travellers' site at Hamble near Southampton.

In the video below, Graham Clark tells Channel 4 News he was kidnapped by travellers and forced to work as a slave in the Midlands for 10 months.

http://www.channel4.com/news/five-arrested-on-slavery-charges-at-travellers-site

Latchy

Whenever I think of Travellers ( which isin't very often :pac: ) I think of Meercats .... always looking over their shoulders and straining their necks to see who's about .

:pac:

The Waltzing Consumer

I am sure it has been mentioned in this thread a good few times already but where the hell is the UN and human rights groups who so quickly jumped on the Dale farm bandwagon?

Is it okay for travellers to take the weakest in society, shave their heads, give them little or no food, make them work for nothing, attack and beat them and keep them imprisoned over a long period of time?

WTF?? :eek:

mikemac

Any sign of Vanessa Redgrave?

I hear she feels strongly about issues and is willing to jump in if she feels human rights are breached

end a eknny

its interesting to see how much concern there is for these people and how much time and effort went into this. its hard to believe that there is thousands of homeless people in britain and ireland that nobody gives a flying fcuk about. do you think people living on the street have it any easier

staker

The news has just started lads.

The Waltzing Consumer

end a eknny wrote: »

its interesting to see how much concern there is for these people and how much time and effort went into this. its hard to believe that there is thousands of homeless people in britain and ireland that nobody gives a flying fcuk about. do you think people living on the street have it any easier

alwasy one :rolleyes:

baldbear

tits on news.

LondonIrish90

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

I am sure it has been mentioned in this thread a good few times already but where the hell is the UN and human rights groups who so quickly jumped on the Dale farm bandwagon?

Is it okay for travellers to take the weakest in society, shave their heads, give them little or no food, make them work for nothing, attack and beat them and keep them imprisoned over a long period of time?

WTF?? :eek:

The UN were trying to preserve a culture which was being wiped out by the eviction, apparently.

Apparently more important than preserving the safety, security and dignity of humans enslaved by this culturally rich crew.

mickydoomsux

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

I am sure it has been mentioned in this thread a good few times already but where the hell is the UN and human rights groups who so quickly jumped on the Dale farm bandwagon?

Is it okay for travellers to take the weakest in society, shave their heads, give them little or no food, make them work for nothing, attack and beat them and keep them imprisoned over a long period of time?

WTF?? :eek:

It's their culture, you horrible racist.

I've said it once and i'll say it again, there's no such thing as a decent Traveller. They are just a massive organised crime gang.

If they all disappeared this moment the world would be a better place.

Rocky_Dennis

baldbear wrote: »

tits on news.

They were a serious pair

galwayrush

Waiting for some concerned citizens to express outrage at travellers not being allowed to keep slaves..:rolleyes:

staker

galwayrush wrote: »

Waiting for some concerned citizens to express outrage at travellers not being allowed to keep slaves..:rolleyes:

Dunno if Josef Fritzl has the internet:pac:

SEPT 23 1989

baldbear wrote: »

tits on news.

They were probably nicked

galwayrush

baldbear wrote: »

tits on news.

Enslaved by a bra, will someone please free them?:pac:

R P McMurphy

mickydoomsux wrote: »

It's their culture, you horrible racist.

I've said it once and i'll say it again, there's no such thing as a decent Traveller. They are just a massive organised crime gang.

If they all disappeared this moment the world would be a better place.

What an ignorant statement, there are many decent travellers, knew a right few through boxing. An awful amount of right fcukers as well though

mikemac

No statement from Pavee Point?

They're being very quiet

mcgarrett

Massa Big Jim Connors

end a eknny

mikemac wrote: »

No statement from Pavee Point?

They're being very quiet

what has it got to do with them. if they werent irish travellers it would be reported as local community helps winos and junkies back into mainstream by offering them work and accomodation, thats the last time them travellers will try and do anybody a good turn

The Waltzing Consumer

end a eknny wrote: »

what has it got to do with them. if they werent irish travellers it would be reported as local community helps winos and junkies back into mainstream by offering them work and accomodation, thats the last time them travellers will try and do anybody a good turn

Ah, I remember you, you are that poster who says crazy things to get rises out of other posters. Didn't we ignore you in the politcs forum because you kept posting such rubbish? It worked, you eventually went away.

end a eknny

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

Ah, I remember you, you are that poster who says crazy things to get rises out of other posters. Didn't we ignore you in the politcs forum because you kept posting such rubbish? It worked, you eventually went away.

yes and some people or like a bad smell wont go away.

mickydoomsux

mikemac wrote: »

No statement from Pavee Point?

They're being very quiet

They only exist to protest discrimination against the gentle race of Travellers.

The Waltzing Consumer

end a eknny wrote: »

yes and some people or like a bad smell wont go away.

Are you comparing yourself to a bad smell?

jonnny68

what about the rack on that traveller mot on the news jaysus :eek::D

galwayrush

jonnny68 wrote: »

what about the rack on that traveller mot on the news jaysus :eek::D

Rack good, but the mouth was awful....