Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox. We have more newsletters. Shame that makes us do things we would never have dreamt of before. So people come over for a job not in sex work and once they get here they have no other option. This bullying tactic is becoming increasingly popular amongst the pimps who want to force women into the sex trade.
These short-term ventures are set up and advertised online and operated from accommodation owned by dodgy landlords and organised crime gangs. Lasting just a matter of weeks these fleeting set-ups make it particularly difficult for the police to keep track of the vulnerable women working inside. This week Romanian couple Alexe Popa and Gabriela Diac admitted operating pop-up brothels around south Manchester and employing Eastern European women as prostitutes, in houses in Levenshulme, Longsight and Rusholme.
Police were led to the pair through adverts on adult websites Viva Street and Adultwork but found no evidence that the women working for them had been coerced. During that case the significant increase in the number of pop-up brothels across Greater Manchester came to light. A surge in Eastern European sex workers has forced police to change the way they tackle criminality within the trade. DC Ward says language and cultural barriers make it harder than ever to build trust between prostitutes and police.
They think we are just there to remove them. Just a fraction still take on the dangerous job of working around the arches behind Piccadilly train station and along Cheetham Hill Road. Many are brought to the UK on the promise of a job. But when they arrive they are beaten, bribed and forced to work as prostitutes for dozens of clients a night.
Police launched an investigation into the trio after learning of the influx of Eastern European girls in the red light district. Manchester Crown Court heard details of the shocking treatment experienced by the women who worked for the gang. They were taken to Manchester to work as prostitutes by Lakatos for the first time on Christmas Day.
