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And freezing rain is being blamed for a 65-car pileup that closed down interstate 290 in massachusetts today. about three dozen people were taken to local hospitals. back to msnbc undercover. the police from devon and cornwall are eager to apprehend all the criminals responsible for trafficking the thai victim lilly. officers ian tomlinson and rob clement are now conversed this man not only trafficked lilly, but also many, many other women. the information we have is tu specifically ordered our victim, identified her and wanted her in particular to be brought over from thailand. as with many of the suspects in this human trafficking investigation, police have had a ....
Claws of the tyinger into the mouth of the crocodile. translator: i couldn t bear it any longer. they lied and took advantage of me. they said you re in this country illegally, so you have no choice. you have to do what she tells you. it s almost worse what gomart has done. having escaped, gomart has taken advantage of that and forced her back into prostitution to make money for himself. during her three week as a sex slave, lilly was subjected to both physical and mental abuse. not only at the hands of her captors, but also from the customers. she has told us that her head has been held under, she has been drowned in a bath of water when she told one madam from a brothel that she wanted to leave. ....
the way she behaved in the premises when officers went in there, she was desperately trying to get to a telephone, to either alert someone or delete information within it. yeah. i think we ve got our girl. i m surprised at how we ve managed to unravel it. let me put it that way. because it is frustrated by the fact that everybody seems to have about four different names. with most of lilly s uk traffickers under arrest, one piece of the puzzle remained. to find that answer detectives fly thousands of miles to bangkok. we managed to break up the uk network and assist the thai police in breaking up the thai network in bangkok. since safely returning to thailand, lilly has been helping ....
we ve got the whole network here, really, from the managers of the brothel here to the people facilitating transport. we ve got the buyers. we ve got the traffickers from thailand as well, and somebody who sorted out the proceeds and moneylaundering as well. in order to secure convictions in britain for all of those involved in lilly s case, it s essential she positively identifies her traffickers. for her own safety, lilly is now in the witness protection program in thailand. but in an incredible act of bravery, she agrees to return to the uk to help identify and convict her traffickers. it s a big day. it s a big chunk of evidence, the identification evidence. so as not to be acued of influencing lilly, the officers can t be present at the identification session. ....
if lilly doesn t positively id gomart, the team won t have enough evidence to convict him, and will have no choice but to see him walk free. speak to you privately rather than the canteen? yeah. she has positively and clearly identified gomart, when i asked what did he do, he drove the girls around. good. couldn t ask better than that. that s excellent. lilly is shown photographs of all her traffickers and positively identifies each member of the gang. and now almost a year out from her ordeal, she has also given the police a much fuller view of what actually happened to her. coming up, operation pentameter 2 starts to wind down as lilly opens up. she told us she had been ....