The Hidden World of Illegal Workers Trapped in Slave Labour, Moving From Flat to Flat Background

The HeraldMay 31, 2005

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ALI Akbar paid an agent in Pakistan pounds -8000 in return for the promise of building a future for his family in Britain.

He landed at Heathrow airport four years ago, too afraid to meet the eyes of the customs officials. In the arrivals suite, there was no family to meet his flight, but a man he did not know bundled him and three others into the back of a van and drove them towards their future, supposedly to make money.

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The Hidden World of Illegal Workers Trapped in Slave Labour, Moving From Flat to Flat Background

It was only when he arrived in a cramped flat in London, shared by dozens of other men with similar aspirations, that he realised how difficult that would be.

Like thousands of others now working in Scotland's black market, he claims poverty drove him away.

"It took me a year and a half...

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