TWO MEN at the centre of a plan to traffic a Hungarian woman to the UK and sell her into marriage have been jailed after she was found at a house in Chorley.

The 22-year-old victim responded to a Hungarian website job vacancy for a babysitter in London in 2013 and was offered the post in a telephone interview.

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However, on arrival in Budapest to travel to London she was met from the train by three men, told she could not use her mobile phone and was driven to Slovakia – starting a three-week ordeal.

Her traffickers used threats and intimidation throughout the three-week ordeal to ensure she remained compliant, including when she was brought into the UK by coach and taken to Manchester.

After being brought into the UK, she was ‘bought’ by a Pakistani man for £3,500 and told they were to marry.

She was held at several addresses in Manchester and one in Chorley.

It was at a house in Cunliffe Street, Chorley, that the victim was finally able to alert the police and officers were then able to rescue her.

Yesterday at Preston Crown Court, Slovakian Bartolomej Sivak, 58, and Rana Yousaf, a 27-year-old Pakistani national, were jailed for four years and two months and 20 months respectively.

Sivak organised the criminal operation with Yousaf acting as a go between for the groom and Sivak.