A Lisburn couple have been handed suspended sentences for forcing a woman to work in their home as a housekeeper and nanny without proper payment
A Lisburn couple have been handed suspended sentences for keeping an employee in enforced servitude.
It is the first ever prosecution in Northern Ireland under the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act.The Izekors have an address in Ashmount Gardens in Lisburn, although Belfast Crown Court heard they had recently been forced to move after their home was attacked.He also ordered the pair to pay the woman £10,000 in compensation.Their victim, a 33-year-old who had lived with them in Castlereagh Place in east Belfast, was forced to work without proper payment.
She cooked, cleaned and cared for children until a local acquaintance found out about her situation and intervened. It was made clear in court the woman was not trafficked or a modern slave and she was never physically assaulted.When a Home Office official visited the house in Belfast to speak to her, he was lied to and sent away without being able to see the victim.
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