Tens of thousands held as modern slaves in Britain
As many as 13,000 people in Britain are being held in conditions of slavery, four times the number previously thought, it has been revealed.
In what is said to be the first scientific estimate of the scale of modern slavery in the UK, the Home Office has said the number of victims last year was between 10,000 and 13,000.
They include women forced into prostitution, domestic staff and workers in fields, factories and fishing boats.
Data from the National Crime Agency’s Human Trafficking Centre had previously put the number of slavery victims in 2013 at 2,744....