CRIME

Avocados linked to violence, rape and deadly beatings

A British company behind one of Kenya's largest avocados farms is being sued over a series of extreme abuse allegations. Kakuzi is a spraw...

Scottish vegetable growers prevented from using unlicensed labour

The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) has stopped a Scottish vegetable growing business from using workers provided to them b...

Opinion: What lessons can be learned from the UK’s largest modern slavery case?

When Operation Fort – the largest modern slavery and human trafficking case to go through the British courts – hit the headlines last sum...

Human traffickers 'diversifying into agriculture'

Police have warned human traffickers could be turning their attention to more rural industries with many urban businesses currently close...

Beware a potential crimewave when pandemic is over says Freight Transport insurer

The publication of the latest European Migrant Smuggling Centre (EMSC) report from Europol, which forensically dissects the modes and met...

Women picking fruit for UK supermarkets 'facing new forms of exploitation'

Women picking strawberries in Spain for UK supermarkets are facing new forms of exploitation, unions and lawyers warn, as the industry is...

Herbal cannabis worth £12m found disguised as vegetable delivery

Police found £12m worth of herbal cannabis hidden inside a vegetable delivery truck in the biggest drugs seizure on record in Northern Ir...

Immigration rules post-Brexit could fuel modern slavery, say charities

The proposed closure of UK borders to low-skilled workers after Brexit risks driving vulnerable EU citizens into modern slavery, charitie...

Industry joins together to discuss the challenge of preventing Modern Slavery

On Friday 31st January, over 250 colleagues from key stakeholders across the food industry came together to discuss the challenge of prev...

90 migrants intercepted trying to reach UK - highest number in one day

The suspected migrants are believed to have arrived off the Kent coast on several boats and were brought ashore at Dover. Ninety migrants...

Farmers urged to get involved with new waste crime unit

Farmers and landowners are being urged to get involved with a new waste crime taskforce, as figures show an increase in flytipping incide...

GLAA Chair honoured with OBE for tackling modern slavery

After more than eight years at the helm of the GLAA Board, Chair Margaret Beels has been honoured with an OBE. Margaret has been celebrat...

Romanian man jailed in Italy over human trafficking ring

Ragusa is one of Italy’s biggest producers of fruit and vegetables, which are exported to countries across the EU including the UK. An It...

Central European governments accused of abusing European agriculture subsidies

Central European governments have been systematically abusing the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy to enrich family members an...

Belgian police find 12 people in fruit and veg lorry

Belgian police say they have found 12 people “safe and well” in a refrigerated lorry, one week after 39 people lost their lives in a simi...

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