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A gang of sex traffickers who exploited 300 Polish women have been jailed for a total of 20 years, as a brave teenage victim who starved to death and tortured explained her ordeal.
Sebastian Zimoch, 48, and his wife Anna, 45, earned £ 500,000 making the Golden Kiss escort empire one of the largest in London and the South East.
Bella, then 18 and unable to speak English, was sent to the UK after her mother died in Poland and promised to work for her.
But she was picked up by two “big and dangerous” men in Gravesend, Kent, and taken to one of seven brothels controlled by the organized crime group in Harrow, Hayes, Forest Gate, Docklands and Harlow, Essex.
For several months, she was forced to have sex “all day and night like a machine.”
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Bella told reporters, “When I got home, they said, ‘She’s young, she’s blonde, they’ll like her.’
“I asked, ‘Excuse me, what am I here to do?’ They replied, ‘Are you stupid or blind, bitch?’
“In five minutes the first man arrived. I was 16 and will remember it for the rest of my life. That first day I had 10 or 12 boys.
“The moments when there were five or six customers, they said, ‘This is too small.’
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Bella was fed cocaine to keep her from sleeping and received two overdoses.
He once starved to death for two days. After ordering food in the Zimoch’s full refrigerator, an agent barked, “You don’t deserve food.”
Another spat in his face when he refused to sleep with a “dirty man who was too old.”
Bella, forced to work on her 19th birthday, added: “I never thought in my life that this would happen to me. It was a shock: someone took my freedom. I was afraid for my life.”
In desperation, he managed to escape and alert the police in April 2020.
The Zimoch of Carlton Road, Romford, who founded the business in 2015, were convicted of conspiracy to organize or facilitate another person’s trip with a view to exploitation and conspiracy to control prostitution for profit. . Sebastian was imprisoned for eight years.
Anna received a two-month suspended prison sentence for 24 months and was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.
Listening receptionist Gregaor Borowka, 44, of Yeading Avenue, Harrow, for three years and nine months.
Michael Lozinski, 53, whose house on Berwick Avenue, Hayes, became a brothel, was jailed for seven years.
Driver Rafal Lacki, 41, of Felmongers, Harlow was jailed for 18 months.
However, he was released on leave because he had already served nine months at the time of sentencing.
Detective Inspector Esther Richardson, of the Met’s central crime specialist, said the Zimochs’ union was motivated by “greed and a sense of law.”
About 134 women were safeguarded during the 12-month investigation at Scotland Yard.
He said: “My team has worked tirelessly to find out the true scale of this illegal operation.
“Those affected often do not see themselves as potential victims of sexual exploitation and many will have been forced into this life to earn money for an organized crime network.
“Victims are often told that the police and UK authorities cannot be trusted and that with limited English they cannot seek help, even if they want to.”
Detective Richardson warned that the United Kingdom had not yet seen the effects of the arrival of hundreds of vulnerable Ukrainian women since the Russian invasion.
But he added: “We believe that there are victims of modern slavery in every district of London and the public can find them every day, possibly without realizing it.
“In addition to being sexually exploited, victims have been found working in construction, domestic servitude, agriculture, cannabis factories and places you use, such as car washes, barbershops and nail bars. “.
Bella, who lives in London, concluded: “I hope that my story will help keep young women and vulnerable children safe. Modern slavery must be stopped immediately. After today, I will be looking to the future.”
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