Four Men - Four In Court On Slavery Charges - The Press Association

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Four guys are because of surface with the courtroom costed with captivity offences concerning four men and women available at a travellers' site.

Tommy Connors, 30, Patrick Connors, 19, James (Big Jim) Connors, 34, and also James (Jimmy) Connors, 23, are accused associated with conspiracy to positioning someone throughout servitude as well as requiring these to help conduct forced labour.

The charges stick to a study through the particular Bedfordshire as well as Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit along with depend on alleged offences in opposition to four gentlemen for the Greenacres travellers' web page within Bedfordshire.

The several defendants many survive at the site, throughout Great Billington, Leighton Buzzard, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

A junior high person which appeared to be in jail alongside the males about Sunday morning hours - a intensely pregnant female - was produced about bail and will possibly be questioned further more following on from the birth of the woman's child, Bedfordshire Police said.

Adrian Roberts, mind of the CPS Thames and also Chiltern Complex Casework Unit, said: "These charges relate with four subjects exactly who state that they have been held next to their could as well as compelled to live plus work like slaves. Police investigations into alternative offences about different possible subjects during Greenacres are usually ongoing, further more into the police raid on Sunday, September 11."

The some adult males will surface with Luton Magistrates Court.

The males were busted for the duration of an early-morning raid on the caravan site by means of more as compared to 200 court arrest officers.

The raid adopted a long-running exploration by simply the power which proposed 24 guys have been appearing held against their particular will with squalid circumstances for the site, in addition to pushed to your workplace intended for simply no pay.

The guys were used through the site into a health care centre. Police mentioned these were largely through English and eastern European backgrounds. A Bedfordshire criminal arrest spokesman stated that seven persons possessed kept the health care heart along with had "chosen to not ever support the criminal arrest investigation".