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Mr Justice Ben Stephens zyhaa709 said: "You MVP Hatstrafficked four woman as an adjunct to and to facilitate a large-scale commercial operation of controlling prostitutionfor gain."Chen told the women her husband was a Chinese Triad gang leader and boasted of high-level police contacts, Belfast Crown Court heard.She was caught after two prostitutes were detained at a port in Belfast in May 2009.There were at least five brothels in Belfast, Newry in Co Down and Londonderry and victims were trafficked between them, the court heard.
The judge said Chen, from Whinchat Grove in Cheap hatsKidderminster, threatened the prostitutes with violence and murder after luring them to Northern Ireland withadverts in Chinese newspapers promising relatively well paid jobs.She used their illegal status to prevent them from contacting the authorities and ontrolled theirmovements - isolating them in dirty flats with little command of English and afraid of going to the police.The trail led to Hinton, an accountant who arranged Chen's frequent trips to Northern Ireland and had little empathy for the victims.
The defendant moved the women around and inMLB baseball hats and out of Northern Ireland in a business motivated by financial gain. She made ￡280,000 between January 2008 and May 2009.Eventually a physical attack by a former client in Newry led to two women being taken by Dempsey to the Stena Line port in Belfast.Staff there became suspicious because they had no luggage and they confessed their situation.Police discovered five brothels in follow-up raids and rescued two other women. Two prostitutes and two housekeepers, all illegal immigrants, were saved.
The judge told Chen she had exploited her victims."YouNBA basketball hats used their illegal status to control and coerce them. You knew that as a result of that illegal status all of them were inhibited from contacting the authorities," he said.He added: "D was scared of you and your boyfriend and she believed that if she did not do what you told her she would be in trouble."He said another victim was told if she ran away she would be murdered.
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