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Meet the boxer who was trafficked and kept as a slave: Bilal Fawaz is now fighting back

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Bilal Fawaz was banned from going to school. When visitors arrived at his London home, the then 14-year-old was ordered to stay upstairs. He was beaten. His days were spent doing household chores. He wasn’t allowed to leave the house. He was a slave. The teenager, who had recently landed in London from Africa, was … Read more

‘Middle class’ beautician, 32, died of overdose after she ‘escaped being trafficked’ 

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A beautician died of an overdose after her ‘middle-class’ upbringing spiralled into a murky underworld when she began abusing drugs and alcohol.  The family of Emma Sheref told a inquest how she had been sucked into drug addiction and suffered PTSD after a boyfriend tried to sell her to drug dealers to pay off debts.   The … Read more