DECEMBER 2016, CHRISTOPHER JOYCE: Christopher Joyce was jailed in December 2016 after he and his family ‘selected’ 15-year-old Nicholas Iliff from a hostel and took him to their traveller site at Redbridge Hollow in Oxford, saying they would look after him.

The 82-year-old traveller and his daughter were jailed for taking the vulnerable disabled teenager from a hostel and making him their slave for 30 years – before stealing £130,000 worth of his benefits.  

Joyce and his 61-year-old daughter Mary were jailed after being sentenced to 21 months jail for their appalling treatment of Mr Iliff. 

CONNORS FAMILY, MAY 2016: Patrick Joseph Connors, 59, and son Patrick Dean Connors, 39, alongside nephew William Connors, 36, were convicted of requiring Michael John Hughes to perform forced or compulsory labour. 

The court heard a second man had been scared into submission for years and was kidnapped on at least four occasions after trying to escape.

He described Connors senior as an animal, and years of malnutrition had seen him develop the brittle bone disease osteoporosis. 

Head of the family Patrick Joseph Connors, of Rumney, Cardiff, was also found guilty of eight counts of causing actual bodily harm, four of kidnap and one of conspiracy to kidnap. 

PARCZEWSKI FAMILY, JULY 2017: An international manhunt was this summer launched for a family of Polish slave masters who lived in luxury while forcing seven men to live in squalor.

Dariusz Parczewski, 48, his wife Bozena, 47, and their son Krystian, 29, fled the country shortly before their trial for forced labour and fraud. 

A Nottinghamshire Police investigation found Dariusz and Bozena targeted people with previous convictions or the homeless and threatened to harm them if they did not comply. 

They were tried in their absence and convicted by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court. 

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