Overview
- Wieslaw Michniewicz, 53, was jailed for 15 years, Aleksandra Timoszek, 32, for 7.5 years, and Mariusz Seretny, 45, for 5 years, while Marta Seretny, 41, received a 12-month community order.
- The network recruited women via the Badoo dating app and job adverts, paid for travel, then enforced sham debts tracked in handwritten ledgers totaling more than £169,000 in nine months.
- Police identified 14 victims aged 17 to 31 who were coerced to work up to 20 hours a day in brothels in Leeds and Sheffield under threats against them or their families.
- Arrests on 14 September 2016 at a Burley address led to the safeguarding of several women and the seizure of £16,000 in cash, mobile phones, ledgers, and three luxury cars including two Porsches and an Audi R8.
- The defendants were convicted in December of conspiracy to arrange travel for exploitation and controlling prostitution for gain, and police urged the public to report suspected modern slavery to official helplines.