dalsingh101 Posted December 9, 2010 Report Share Posted December 9, 2010 Gang denies running modern-day slave trade Published on Thu Dec 09 10:44:28 GMT 2010 A HIGH-profile court case where a gang stands accused of treating migrant workers like slaves has links to the Harborough area. Farm workers were forced to live in filthy, infested homes while they picked leeks destined for the supermarket shelves of Tesco and Waitrose, Northampton Crown Court heard this week. It is claimed that in four years, gang leader Gurdip Singh Somal, of Kettering, made £10m from the farming companies who owned leek fields in Lincs, Notts and Cambridgeshire. When police made arrests in November 2008 – which officers said was the largest investigation of its kind carried out in the UK – a property in Harborough was raided as well as a business at Eckland Lodge, Desborough. It has not yet been revealed at court what part Harborough and Desborough played in the alleged crime ring – the trial is expected to last for several months. Jurors heard that workers were promised good wages, accommodation and working conditions, but in reality were put to work in fields with no safety equipment, were beaten, threatened and sustained numerous injures. Gurdip Singh Somal, Manjinder Kaur Somal, Jujhar Singh and Ania Jemiolo deny conspiracy to exploit by arranging arrival in the UK between December 2004 and November 2008. Gurdip Singh Somal, Manjinder Kaur Somal, Jujhar Singh, Santokh Singh Nizzar, Varinder Singh and Fateh Singh Bal deny conspiracy to exploit by arranging travel within the UK during the same period. The trial began on Tuesday and Jonathan Kirk QC, prosecuting, said: “Workers came here on the promise of good wages, conditions and accommodation. “When they arrived they were put to work in fields where many were intimidated, threatened and beaten.” He went on to tell the court about the working conditions. He said: “The defendants used a harvesting machine, designed to collect leeks, to herd the workers though the fields. Those who could not work quickly were knocked to the ground. “They were not given protective equipment and sustained unpleasant skin infections from the acid in the leeks. The knives that the workers used would cut them to the bone when the harvesting machine slammed into their backs.” In statements read out at court yesterday, the labourers described how they were dragged from their overcrowded, inhuman conditions at flats in Kettering and made to work more than 12 hours a day, facing beatings if their performance dropped. The workers said gangmasters driving harvesting machines herded them across fields as they carried 18-inch blades, sometimes in the dark. A Polish worker described how the machine would lurch unexpectedly into the workers and another witness said how a worker nearly cut his finger off completely. The trial was adjourned on Tuesday and is due to continue on Monday. http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/local-news/gang_denies_running_modern_day_slave_trade_1_1805312 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarjasDevi Posted December 9, 2010 Report Share Posted December 9, 2010 How terrible this is. How can anybody have happiness with things when they treat jivas this way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyhp32 Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 (edited) It's not just humans that are having a bad time. This video made me sick! http://www.metro.co.uk/news/849790-diplomats-son-battered-labrador-puppy-after-having-a-bad-day Edited December 10, 2010 by tonyhp32 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithar Posted December 10, 2010 Report Share Posted December 10, 2010 It's not just humans that are having a bad time. This video made me sick! http://www.metro.co.uk/news/849790-diplomats-son-battered-labrador-puppy-after-having-a-bad-day That guy doing that to the poor dog is a pure demon. A future wife beater for sure. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zulu Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 It's not just humans that are having a bad time. This video made me sick! http://www.metro.co.uk/news/849790-diplomats-son-battered-labrador-puppy-after-having-a-bad-day that guy should be strung up from his nuts!!!! how dare he do that to an animal, vile person. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 So some of you guys see the dog abuse and go blind to the human abuse in the original post? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaheediyan Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 Why do you sound surprised Dalsingh, the Evil Slave Drivers aren't Muslim, so it doesn't count. Response - bring on a video of a dog getting slapped around. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithar Posted December 12, 2010 Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 So some of you guys see the dog abuse and go blind to the human abuse in the original post? Because a Sikh is suppose to feel compassion for all humans and animals. Animals don't have their Martin Luthar King Jrs or Nelson Mandelas. So we humans must feel compassion for them and voice our concearn for their safety & well being because if we humans wont, no one else will. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsingh101 Posted December 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2010 (edited) Because a Sikh is suppose to feel compassion for all humans and animals. Animals don't have their Martin Luthar King Jrs or Nelson Mandelas. So we humans must feel compassion for them and voice our concearn for their safety & well being because if we humans wont, no one else will. Someone needs to tell most of India. What I witnessed there was pretty lame in terms of animal welfare. Lots of manky looking, half starved animals, including feral dogs wondering around. Edited December 12, 2010 by dalsingh101 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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