Brothers charged with slavery

THREE brothers and their brother-in-law were remanded in custody yesterday after appearing in court charged with enslaving four men at a Travellers’ site in Britain.

James (Jimmy) Connors, aged 23, Tommy Connors, aged 27, and Patrick Connors, aged 19, appeared at Luton Magistrates’ Court with brother-in-law James (Big Jim) Connors, aged 33. The charges relate to four alleged victims removed from the Greenacres site in Bedfordshire after a police raid on Sunday.

They were brought under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which came into force last year.