UK Traffickers used Heathrow 'children's home' to bring Chinese migrants for prostitution

4 May 2009 |

The ‘Daily Mail’ reports that according to a leaked document from the UK Border Agency reveals that at least 77 Chinese youngsters have gone missing from a residential unit near Heathrow since March 2006, ending up in prostitution or work in the drugs trade. The document said the missing young people were victims of an international trafficking network.

Other sources on the same issue:

• The Guardian (05 May) Revealed: 77 trafficked Chinese children lost by home

• The Guardian (05 May) People trafficking: a phone call, a car door opens – and another child vanishes
• BBC (06 May) Care children ‘being trafficked’
• The Guardian (opinion) (06 May) Trafficked children need state help

And related News:

• BBC (27 Apri) Detention of children ‘must stop’
• Related document: The Arrest and Detention of Children Subject to Immigration Control

Source : The Daily Mail