Irish traveller family found guilty of forcing men into servitude

Five members of an Irish traveller family have been found guilty by an English court of forcing destitute men into servitude.

Irish traveller family found guilty of forcing men into servitude

Five members of an Irish traveller family have been found guilty by an English court of forcing destitute men into servitude.

The trial heard that their victims were often homeless drifters or addicts, who were forced to live in squalid caravans on traveller sites where they were controlled by violence. Some worked for the family for decades.

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