Servitude trial: Four of Connors traveller family guilty
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-18644539
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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, have been found guilty of the servitude and forced labour of the men at Greenacres in Bedfordshire.
Josie's husband James John, 34, has also been found guilty.
Luton Crown Court heard victims were made to work for nothing and slept in sheds and horseboxes.
The jury heard that victims were exploited, verbally abused and beaten for financial gain at the Greenacres caravan site near Leighton Buzzard.
During the trial, the jury heard that the complainants, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were forced to work in the Connors' block paving business.
The 13-week trial was told the men were given next to no food, forced to wash in cold water and paid little or no money for working up to 19 hours a day, six days a week.
Verdicts have not been reached on Tommy Snr's sons Johnny, 28, James, 24, and Tommy Jnr, 27.
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No surprise there, then ..... :idc:
I wonder what sentence they will get - ideally it should be involve breaking rocks for 12 hours day on a diet of bread, water and gruel ..... :hmph:
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