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| Labour MP Frank Field |
The case of three women allegedly held as slaves for 30 years in south London is the "tip of a rather large iceberg", an MP in charge of reviewing evidence of slavery in Britain has warned.
Frank Field, chairman of the evidence review for the modern slavery bill, said criminal gangs were making "huge sums of money" from people being imported into the UK to work "almost for nothing".
Field said many victims who escape have no way of communicating because they speak little or no English and often come from countries where they are "deeply suspicious" of the police.
"We've had this example of domestic slavery but people are being imported to work, almost for nothing, in industry," he told BBC Breakfast.
"We've got begging gangs being developed, with people being imported. And of course we've got the whole question of how children are being imported to work. It's a whole range of issues we've got to wake up to." » | Staff and agencies | Saturday, November 23, 2013
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Women held as 'slaves' had been part of a 'collective', police reveal: Scotland Yard says two victims originally met alleged captors through a "shared political ideology" and youngest captive held only a birth certificate, and no other papers » | David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent | Saturday, November 23, 2013
