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A sex worker and her pimp boyfriend on Tuesday admitted a near £8,000 extortion plot.

Jailing sex worker White and her pimp boyfriend Hamill, Judge Gordon Kerr QC told the pair that while his gambling debts were “at the heart” of the case, Hamill was “willingly assisted” by White in the extortion plot.

The judge told them they had caused their victim to undergo “severe stress in his work, his social life and obviously financially” so he was ordering that a BMW car which was seized by police be sold and the victim compensated for the £3,200 he handed over to them.

Brothels in Armagh, Newry and Dungannon were among 27 raided across Northern Ireland today. Two people have been arrested – a 63-year-old man in Pomeroy and a 47-year-old woman in Newry. Both were arrested on suspicion of human trafficking, controlling prostitution, brothel keeping and money laundering.

Detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Unit, supported by over 150 officers from across the organisation as well as Criminal Justice partners, carried out the significant operation into an organised crime group, which has been trafficking people throughout Northern Ireland for sexual exploitation.

Many of the victims involved are originally from Brazil, and have been exploited in over 27 brothels located in Newry, Armagh, Dungannon, Omagh, Cookstown, Derry/Londonderry, Coleraine, Belfast, Aughnacloy, Ballymena and Portrush.