Home Secretary Theresa May was on Sunday to announce the introduction of lengthy prison sentences for immigrant-slave ringleaders, the Sunday Times reported.
The Modern Slavery Bill will also seek to ban those who traffic illegal immigrants from running companies and from returning to areas in which they operated, according to the report.
May told the paper the victims “are, to all intents and purposes, slaves.
“Whatever the nationality of the victims, our first concern must be to free them,” she wrote. “But in the long term, the only way to minimise the number of victims is to maximise the number of modern-day slave-drivers that we convict and imprison.”
Sentences of up to 14 years are being proposed for those found guilty of using abduction, threats or extortion to control slaves.
'Slave' ringleaders to face lengthy jail terms: May
