A leading human rights lawyer has told the government how she is increasingly representing Albanian children trafficked into the UK for crime purposes.
Danny Bayraktarova told the Home Affairs Select Committee that Albanian teenagers make up a large proportion of her caseload with many being criminally exploited by “highly organised” international people-smuggling gangs.
The solicitor told MPs that the grip of the trafficking gangsters is so tight—they are easily able to threaten and intimidate their families back home in Albania if they refuse to cooperate.
“We must recognise that these trafficking groups are very highly organised,” she told the committee on Wednesday….