Sentenced in modern slavery case
The family of a notorious members have been arrested and sentenced for runing a clasic morden slave camp.Several of the Rooney family from Drinsey Nook in Lincolnshire were jailed for a total of more than 50 years at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday.
The family travelled the country recruiting unemployed vulnerable men setting them to work for meagre wages labouring for their various businesses.Almost all of the 18 victims had problems with drink and drugs or mental health issues. Extraordinarily, one of the men was held by the family for 26 years."Your victims had reached a position where they were cowed into submission. They knew that any resistance to you was futile - it would have been met by you recruiting more family members to deliver more violence.
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