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Three men are on trial at the city’s crown court. Brothers Defrim Paci, 42, and 37-year-old Jetmir Paci stand accused, along with Sitar Ali, 33, of modern slavery crimes linked to Shiny, Warwick Road. These were allegedly committed during 2016 and 2017, involving “forced labour and arranging for people to come to the UK with a view to their being exploited”. Three Romanians have already told a jury of working long hours in return for low pay, without protective equipment and living in “very dirty” multi-occupancy city accommodation. Evidence a fourth man gave to police in ...

A Carlisle car wash employee has spoken of “slave labour”, and of his boss “whistling” at workers to make them work harder.

TRIAL: Carlisle Crown Court A Carlisle car wash worker claimed he had no breaks during busy periods, suffered “cracked hands” from cleaning chemicals and slept on a mattress “full of bugs” in “very dirty” staff accommodation. At the city’s crown court yesterday, the man became the third employee to give evidence from the witness box in the trial of three men who deny alleged modern slavery crimes. These centre on Shiny hand car wash, Warwick Road, and were allegedly committed during 2016 and 2017. The man recalled travelling from London and initial employment at a differen...

TRIAL: Carlisle Crown Court A Carlisle car wash worker claimed he had no breaks during busy periods, suffered “cracked hands” from cleaning chemicals and slept on a mattress “full of bugs” in “very dirty” staff accommodation. At the city’s crown court yesterday, the man became the third employee to give evidence from the witness box in the trial of three men who deny alleged modern slavery crimes. These centre on Shiny hand car wash, Warwick Road, and were allegedly committed during 2016 and 2017. The man recalled travelling from London and initial employment at a differen...

1/1 A crown court jury has heard from a Romanian worker who said he was paid £20 for a nine-day stint at a Carlisle car wash business. The man was giving evidence in the case of three men accused of conspiring to force Romanian nationals to perform “forced labour". The defendants – Sitar Ali, 33, Defrim Paci, 42, and Jetmir Paci, 37 – all deny offences arising out of events at the city’s Warwick Road Shiny Car Wash business. They are accused of conspiring, between January 2016 and June of the following year, to require their employees to perform “forced or c...