Greenacres slavery trial: “The trial has been seen as a vital test case of new anti-slavery legislation…”
An update to Mick’s original post on the charges of slavery following a police raid on a travellers’ site in Bedfordshire in September last year. From the BBC report on the verdicts Four members of a traveller family have been found guilty of forcing destitute men into servitude. Tommy Connors Snr, 52, his son Patrick Connors, 20, and daughter Josie, 31, kept the men in squalid conditions at Greenacres caravan park in Bedfordshire, the trial heard. Josie’s husband James John …