Around 100,000 people in Europe are trafficked every year, a conference in Dublin heard this week.

A multi-million-pound network thought to be behind the smuggling of up to 200,000 people into the UK was smashed today in a series of dawn raids by police.

A multi-million-pound people-smuggling empire regarded as one of the biggest in Europe was smashed by British police today as officers swooped on its most senior figures in a series of dawn raids across London.