Foreign Women "Auctioned" In Britain
Shaveta Bansal - All Headline News Contributor London, UK (AHN) - Foreign women, often from eastern European countries, are being auctioned off for prostitution in public places in Britain such as airports, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Monday. According to a report by AFP, a spokesman for the CPS said one such auction was held recently in front of a cafe in the arrivals hall at Gatwick airport, south of London. Other sales had taken place in the London airports of Heathrow and Stansted, and at other British airports, he said. The CPS, which on Tuesday hosts a conference on crime in airports, said the people-traffickers are selling the young women as they arrived in Britain. The most recent government figures show that there were 1400 women working as prostitutes in quasi-slavery in Britain five years ago. But numbers are much greater now, said Gloucestershire Chief Constable Tim Brain, head of the Operation Pentameter police operation aimed at dismantling forced prostitution networks.
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