One downside of the accession of the eight Eastern Europe countries to the EU in May 2004 is the increased ease with which traffickers can get women and girls into the UK only to trick them into forced prostitution. On 28th
November 2005, following a long covert investigation, four Albanian men were found guilty of trafficking young women from Lithuania - one just 16 years old - and then imprisoning them in a brothel.
Tim Samuels had spent the last year investigating the racket and speaking to some of the victims. There are reckoned to be as many as 6000 women lured here from abroad each year to be worked as prostitutes, but despite evidence that the scale of the problem is growing why is the UK not among the majority of EU countries who have signed up to a European convention against trafficking. Why not?
November 2005, following a long covert investigation, four Albanian men were found guilty of trafficking young women from Lithuania - one just 16 years old - and then imprisoning them in a brothel.
Tim Samuels had spent the last year investigating the racket and speaking to some of the victims. There are reckoned to be as many as 6000 women lured here from abroad each year to be worked as prostitutes, but despite evidence that the scale of the problem is growing why is the UK not among the majority of EU countries who have signed up to a European convention against trafficking. Why not?
Role: "Sex Trafficking" story (Voice Over)
Company: BBC
Producer : Warwick Harrington
Company: BBC
Producer : Warwick Harrington
