A flat has been searched in Newry and a man arrested as part of a major cross-border operation against human trafficking. Members of the PSNI, An Garda Siochana and police in Wales have been carrying out raids.

Four Romanian nationals living in Slough have been jailed today in a landmark child trafficking case involving a 13 year-old girl.

An immigration solicitor who forged documents to make false visa applications for clients has been jailed for four years. Gabriel Gabman, 47, got his clients into the country on false documents or declarations—and had some working for him at his east London offices without pay.

Rescued victims of a human trafficking clampdown were yesterday packing their meagre belongings and heading home to Romania.

Migrant workers taken into care following a human trafficking raid in Lincolnshire were harvesting vegetables for a supplier to Tesco and Waitrose, it has emerged.

A 30-year-old Bolivian led the largest single organised attempt to breach border controls in Scotland, immigration officials claimed yesterday. He was detained by officers from the UK Border Agency at Edinburgh Airport on Friday amid claims that nearly 60 people from the South American country tried to enter Scotland illegally.

More than 60 people have been rescued in the largest ever human trafficking crackdown mounted in the UK which saw 21 homes raided in the Kettering area.