A young woman trafficked into the UK to work as a prostitute was allegedly raped twice by her pimp at a Gloucester brothel run from the former home of notorious killers Fred and Rose West.
The 22 year-old Czech national was one of many vulnerable victims lured to this country and ruthlessly exploited by a Romany gypsy gang who also forced the women into sham marriages with foreign nationals, a jury were told.
The victim was then raped multiple times by another pimp - known as 'The Boss' - at a seedy South-West London brothel, where he is also accused of raping a 19 year-old Czech, who was trafficked into the UK, Isleworth Crown Court heard yesterday.
The six Czech defendants are: Teodor Hunka, 41, Zdeno Sarissky, 29, Eddezider Herak, 36, of no fixed address and Herak's mother, Ludmila Nistorova, 53, of Ragland Court, Regent Street, Gloucester.
Mother and son Iveta Viragova, 44 and Vojtech Virag, 25, of Gravenel Gardens, Nutwell Street, Tooting.
The six Czechs have pleaded not guilty to conspiring to traffic young women into the UK and within the UK for sexual exploitation and conspiring to control prostitution between October 1, 2008 and July 13, last year.
Herak has pleaded not guilty to two counts of raping the 22 year-old woman at 25 Midland Road, Gloucester (pic.top) and local man Magezi Clague, 42, of Praed Street, Paddington denies four counts of raping the same woman plus two counts of raping a 19 year-old Czech.
Clague also denies trafficking young females within the UK for sexual exploitation and controlling prostitution for gain.
Viragova alone denies perverting the course of justice by trying to persuade the 19 year-old to retract her police statement.
Virag alone has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to assist unlawful immigration, however his five Czech co-defendants have admitted sham marriage charges and will be sentenced at the conclusion of the three-month trial.
Prosecutor Miss Emma Deacon explained the multiple victims were promised approximately £2,300 to travel to the UK and participate in a sham marriage, but once here were forced into prostitution with most of the gang's clients men of Pakistani origin.
The first victim, who grew up in an orphanage, was collected from the airport by Herak and his mother Nistorova and immediately driven to the notorious two-storey Midland Road house, where Rose West murdered Fred's stepdaughter Charmaine in 1971, burying her under the kitchen floor.
She joined three other prostitutes, but resisted joining the sordid trade. "She told Herak she came for a break and would rather work in a shop," said Miss Deacon.
"While she was trying to sleep Herak came to her and touched her and had sex with her.
"Three to four days later she was raped again by Herak. She told him she did not want to have sex and he carried on regardless."
By day two at Midland Road the victim was having sex with punters. "The mother and son controlled her prostitution and instructed her on services she should provide.
"The customers paid Herak and she did not collect any money herself and just took food and cigarettes.
"She was worked as a prostitute in Gloucester and most of her clients were of Asian origin.
"Nistorova began bringing clients to the house, four or five a day, and the victim was not being paid and the defendant locked her in the house when she objected."
Nistorova then sold the young woman for £1,000 to a Pakistani man in London and drove her to his address, the jury were told
The victim then had a sham marriage to secure the man's immigration status - all orchestrated by Nistorova.
The 19 year-old victim fell out with her Czech family and was recruited by Sarissky.
"She thought she was coming here to work and did not know she was going to be a prostitute," said Miss Deacon.
"Viragova arranged for her to work as a prostitute and she was afraid what would happen if she refused.
The teenager was pimped out for £50 a time or £150 for an evening - often receiving only a fiver in return.
"On one occasion she was picked out at a party by a man to have sex with.
"Virag would drive her to clients and would wait for her or collect her in the morning and the clients paid him cash."
She was forced to perform sexual practices she objected to and Viragova "slapped her face" after discovering she was taking breaks from the stream of clients.
The victim was forced to work in a Tooting brothel (pic.bottom) above a betting-shop in Mitcham Road run by Clague - known as 'The Boss' - who photographed her for potential punters.
"He then told her he wanted to try her out sexually and had sexual intercourse with her on the bed and was holding her hands so she could not protect herself.
"She describes wanting to kill him for what he did and she was raped the next day by him in the kitchen on a worktop."
Clague similarly raped the 22 year-old victim when she was also forced to work at his brothel, the jury were told.
The teen was also forced into a sham marriage with the help of a crooked solicitor, it is alleged.
"Her husband, of Pakistani origin, chose her from a number of girls in the East London solicitor's office."
Distressed calls to her parents would be suddenly "cut off" and when her family reported her missing they were threatened on their doorstep by five gypsies.
The prosecutor explained Hunka was also actively involved in the Czech Republic with recruiting girls for prostitution and took a cut of their earnings.
Trial continues………..
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