What might make a young Vietnamese woman leave her home and family to make a dangerous trip across the world in search of a new life in the UK? Most likely, trafficking experts say, it was the promise of work in one of Britain’s proliferating high street nail bars. Boys are usually sent to work in cannabis farms, locked inside converted houses and forced to tend the plants day and night, while the girls and young women are dispatched to work in nail bars. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A young Vietnamese man in London who was trafficked to the UK to work in a cannabis farm. My life was much worse than when I lived in Vietnam.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Stephen’ was rescued from forced labour in a UK cannabis farm after being trafficked from Vietnam via Russia.

Source: The Guardian October 25, 2019 18:10 UTC