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West Midlands Police, Coventry Operational Command Unit (M-OCU) have received intelligence reports from an informant that a group of Polish men have been engaged in modern slavery, keeping people in effective enslavement to work for them.

 

It is alleged that they traffic illegal immigrants into the UK through the port of Hull.  From there, the immigrants are transported in vans to Coventry where their passports and identity papers are taken.  This stops the immigrants from claiming refugee status or from applying for legal migrant status.

 

It is further alleged that male ‘slaves’ are then used to farm cannabis (marijuana) while the females are forced to work in nail bars or as prostitutes to earn sufficient money to pay for their accommodation and food.

 

Police intelligence reports also indicate that a terraced house located at 23B Whitefriars Street is one of the locations where these illegal immigrants are detained.  Police have raided this address and found a group of two Vietnamese men and two Vietnamese women plus two further Vietnamese girls aged 14 and 16 years of age.

 

A hydroponics system was found along with several plants suspected to be Cannabis sativa, the marijuana plant, selectively bred to produce high Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content flowers and leaves (‘Skunk’ cannabis).

 

In spite of this, none of the Vietnamese persons were arrested – instead they were all transported to a ‘safe house’ where further investigations will be performed by the Immigration Enforcement team from the Home Office, before any decisions are taken regarding possible prosecutions.

 

All individuals will be interviewed as potential witnesses.  A suitable representative from the Vietnamese community has been appointed to ensure the witnesses welfare.

 

Three Polish males, Jakub Młynarczyk (25 years of age), Szymon Kowalczyk (24 years of age) and Filip Nowak (22 years of age) were arrested on suspicion of operating a human trafficking operation from the address at 23B Whitefriars Street.  Further possible charges include Cannabis production, packaging and supply (or conspiracy thereto), living off the proceeds of prostitution; operation of a brothel; abduction and false imprisonment of vulnerable persons; sexual abuse of children; slavery (in contravention of the Modern Slavery Act, 2015).

 

 

 

You have been called by Det Sgt Raj Mahota of West Midlands Police and requested to attend the scene at 23B Whitefriars Street to recover relevant evidence to support the above allegations and to provide evidence to support the prosecution of Messrs:

 

 

 

Jakub Młynarczyk (25)            Szymon Kowalczyk (24)          Filip Nowak (22)

 

…for these offences.

 

To deliver this requirement, you will be provided with access to the alleged scene at 23B Whitefriars Street (Science & Health Building), Coventry on Friday 23^rd February 2018, to conduct a full forensic examination of the scene to identify, record, recover, package and store relevant items of evidence and to subsequently use the results of the forensic analysis of these items to prepare a witness statement of evidence for submission to the courts. 

 

You will subsequently be called to provide verbal evidence at Coventry Magistrates Court in the trial of these three suspects and to defend your statement under cross examination.

 

 

 

Each of the face-to-face sessions between now and the hand-in date for your statements (14 March 2018 @ 18:00), will consider the available evidence and will assist you with the development of an appropriate forensic strategy to address the offence (or offences) you wish to address and the suspect (or suspects) you feel you can support either the prosecution or the acquittal of.

 

The available evidence will be released to you as laboratory reports over the course of the next few weeks and you will be required to consider both the appropriate support that it provides and the value (or weight) of this evidence in supporting either the prosecution or defence case(s).

 

The witness statement should evaluate the evidence using the Prosecution and Defence Propositions approach.  You must not attempt to EXPLAIN the evidence – instead evaluate the evidence in the light of the two alternative (exclusive and comprehensive) propositions.

 

Ensure that your statements provide clear and well considered explanations of the complex forensic techniques you employ which enable a jury (comprising non-science educated lay-persons) to understand and follow your arguments.

 

Statements will be developed jointly between the lecturer and the individual students in a mentor/novice relationship with guidance and critical advice provided by the mentor (tutor) and the novice (student) acting upon that advice and guidance.  This is the way in which statement writing is developed in forensic practice.

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