article_snippet.sent: Czech immigrants were trafficked into UK by a Roma family on the promise of a 'better life' were forced to work for free and sleep in cupboards, a court was told.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm Galloway, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the five defendants, all members of an extended Czech Roma family, brought the immigrants over.
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm Galloway, for the Crown Prosecution Service said: 'the five defendants, all members of an extended Czech Roma family entered into a criminal agreement to traffick other Czech nationals into the UK and then exploit the five defendants, all members of an extended Czech Roma family for financial benefit.'
article_snippet.sent: Malcolm Galloway said: 'the five defendants, all members of an extended Czech Roma family (the immigrants) came with a promise of good pay, a job and a future.'
article_snippet.sent: the court heard one man, Josef Bukovinsky, told police Malcolm Galloway had been 'living with the gypsies' in the Czech Republic before Malcolm Galloway was 'sold to Ruzena' (Tancosova).
article_snippet.sent: Katerina Kurejova (right) are part of a Roma family accused of illegally trafficking Czech migrants into the UK and 'treating Czech migrants like dogs' Mr Galloway said Mr Galloway was one of 11 men who lived with Tancosova in less than three years at a former address in Plymouth.