CRIMINAL DIVISION
ON APPEAL FROM THE CROWN COURT AT BRADFORD and ST ALBANS
HHJ COLIN BURN/HHJ RICHARD FOSTER T20180059/T20210378
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B e f o r e :
MRS JUSTICE McGOWAN DBE
SIR ROBIN SPENCER
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MR J MARSLAND appeared on behalf of the Crown
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"You travelled from Vietnam of your own accord in order to send money back to your family as they owed a debt. You worked many jobs as a labourer before coming to Bradford on the promise of paid work. You knew the plants you were watering were an illegal drug. You were only at the house for a week or so. You suffered no physical abuse. When you rang the owners and asked to leave you were told you would have to wait."
"You do not claim to have been trafficked to the UK. You claim to have come here illegally of your own free will and to have been able to work illegally and earn money in the UK. You agreed to go to Bradford on the promise of more paid work. Your claim to have been subject to modern slavery at the house in Bradford is considered to be inconsistent with your account of illegal work."