In the shadows

摘要

"There were three of us all together in a room with no lights. They would lock us in when we weren't wot king and threaten to fight us or kill us if we tried to leave." Four years after his ordeal, Jani is telling me about the months he spent working in UK construction under conditions of what is usually called modern slavery. When Jani came to the UK in September 2011, he believed he would find a better life. He had been out of work in his native Hungary and was in desperate need of money when two men approached him with an attractive overseas job opportunity.