Traveller family convicted of modern day slavery and fraud

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The victim of a modern slavery gang was ordered to dig his own grave and told &&num;8220&semi;that&&num;8217&semi;s where you&&num;8217&semi;re going&&num;8221&semi; if he did not sign a bogus work contract&period; He was kept a &&num;8220&semi;captive&&num;8221&semi; by members of the Rooney family on a Lincolnshire traveller site and forced to work 12-hour days&comma; seven-days-a-week for 26 years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an emotional account of his life&comma; the man&&num;8217&semi;s sister told how he was beaten with a rake when he overslept&comma; had his teeth smashed with a concrete slab and had been left &&num;8220&semi;psychologically damaged&&num;8221&semi; by his dreadful ordeal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking anonymously&comma; the woman told how her brother was first approached by one of the gang &&num;8220&semi;on a seafront bench&&num;8221&semi; and offered work&period; Candidly&comma; she told how her sibling had developed a drug habit and become homeless&comma; losing contact with his own family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an audio tape of her interview released by Lincolnshire Police&comma; she said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;They were possibly watching him in the soup kitchens in the homeless centres&period; &&num;8220&semi;Because that&&num;8217&semi;s what they do to try and establish people that won&&num;8217&semi;t be missed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He worked very&comma; very long hours and he certainly had a very hard life&period; &&num;8220&semi;From my understanding&comma; it was for very little pay or no pay and I believe he was actually living in very squalid conditions and had lived in a stable for some part of his captivity&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Friday&comma; the full story emerged of how 11 members of the Rooney gang were convicted of running a modern slavery ring&comma; which kept 18 men in &&num;8220&semi;truly shocking&&num;8221&semi; conditions&period; While their victims were forced into a life of hard labour&comma; the family &&num;8211&semi; convicted of slavery and fraud charges at Nottingham Crown Court &&num;8211&semi; lived a life of luxury&comma; earned off the backs of their workers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Telling of her brother&&num;8217&semi;s ordeal at the gang&&num;8217&semi;s hands&comma; the victim&&num;8217&semi;s sister said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;He was asked to sign a contract by John Rooney &&num;8211&semi; a contract would have been out of his understanding&period; &&num;8220&semi;And John Rooney said to him&comma; &&num;8216&semi;you&&num;8217&semi;re going to work for me for the rest of your life&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;My brother replied &&num;8216&semi;oh&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know about that&&num;8217&semi;&period; &&num;8220&semi;Prior to that conversation&comma; John Rooney had actually made him dig a hole&period; &&num;8220&semi;And my brother said to him &&num;8216&semi;how much further do you want me to dig down&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;And he &lpar;John&rpar; said &&num;8216&semi;keep digging&&num;8217&semi; and at the end of the conversation said to him &&num;8216&semi;if you don&&num;8217&semi;t sign this contract&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s where you&&num;8217&semi;re going&comma; in that hole&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We think he was captured for up to 26 years&period;&&num;8221&semi; Giving an account of another conversation with her brother&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I said &&num;8216&semi;how did you loose your front teeth because you used to have nice teeth when you were young&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He looked at me and he said &&num;8216&semi;oh concrete done that&&num;8217&semi;&comma; and I said &&num;8216&semi;what do you mean&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;And he said &&num;8216&semi;oh&comma; well John threw a slab at me one day&comma; and it hit me in the mouth&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;That is the way that you get these people to become so subservient to them&period;&&num;8221&semi; She added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The brother we have back is certainly not the one that left us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I think the whole family feel a sense of guilt because had we had known this is what was happening to this poor lad&comma; then would we have done things differently&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e38f204c6b3">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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