Supermarket giant Tesco has stopped production at a factory in China after one of its Christmas cards was found to contain a cry for help from a prisoner who made it.
newspaper reported that a London schoolgirl had opened a card last weekend to find a message inside claiming to be from inmates at Shanghai's Qingpu Prison.
"No evidence was found to suggest they had broken our rule banning the use of prison labour," the spokeswoman said, while no other complaints have been received."If evidence is found we will permanently de-list the supplier." In 2014, a woman in Northern Ireland found a note on a pair of trousers from low-cost shop Primark saying:"We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs."
He got in touch and Humphrey contacted some other ex-prisoners, who confirmed that foreign inmates had been packing cards for Tesco.
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