article_snippet.sent: The vile trade also includes the sale of young girls for prostitution and sham marriages.
article_snippet.sent: The traffickers then seize control of The traffickers bank accounts and travel documents, and force The traffickers to work in often gruesome conditions.
article_snippet.sent: The Home Office has estimated that, in any given year, there are between 10,000 and 13,000 victims of human trafficking in the UK.
article_snippet.sent: Traffickers involved in the most serious cases now face possible life sentences.
article_snippet.sent: The victims, expecting to work legally, had been transported to Britain in coaches.
article_snippet.sent: But once The victims were across the border, the criminals seized the criminals passports and other documents and forced the criminals into domestic servitude, slave labour and welfare fraud – signing up for several state handouts including tax credits.
article_snippet.sent: Benefits were then paid into accounts in the names of The victims but controlled by the traffickers.
article_snippet.sent: The sums of money made by the Eastern Europeans from trafficking victims using this kind of exploitation were huge.
highlights_snippet.sent: Vile trade also includes sale of girls for prostitution and sham marriages .