Three brothers and their brother-in-law have appeared in court charged with enslaving four men found at a travellers’ site in the UK.

Four Irish men from the same family will appear in court in the UK today charged with slavery offences relating to four people found at a travellers’ site.

WORKERS are being held in slave conditions in Irish homes and businesses because of a lack of legislation to either protect them or prosecute their enslavers.

SOME of the Travellers staying at the British caravan site at the centre of a slavery investigation are normally resident in Ireland and have claimed no knowledge of what was going on under their noses.