7 Dec 2009

Sex slave sold for £3k on London’s Oxford Street

VILE pimps strike a deal on Britain's busiest shopping street - to sell a woman as a sex slave.

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The shocking police surveillance photo shows one Albanian coolly handing £3,000 in cash to two others outside Selfridges on London's Oxford Street.

The "merchandise", a Lithuanian girl in her 20s, stands to the left, helplessly watching the deal. She is a prisoner, guarded by another thug just out of the picture.

But she was lucky. Cops swooped to free her - and a gang of Albanian people traffickers were all jailed for a total of 63 years. Many other girls are not so fortunate. The Home Office estimated that in 2003, 4,000 women were trafficked into the UK for prostitution.

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