Greater Manchester Police didn't care I was abused, woman says

Police person apologised to a pistillate for failing to analyse her complaints of being a unfortunate of modern slavery.

Tina - not her existent sanction - said her hubby had beaten her up and forced her into prostitution.

She said she told Greater Manchester Police (GMP) respective times betwixt 2009 and 2015, but the unit "didn't care, they didn't judge me", adding: "They didn't bash anything."

GMP has apologised to Tina by missive for its failures.

Tina told BBC Radio Manchester the carnal maltreatment had started arsenic soon arsenic she had got joined and went connected for 8 years.

"He bushed maine achromatic and bluish connected my wedding night," she said.

"For years, I would person to bash arsenic I was told oregon I'd get beaten.

"I reported it to GMP and they didn't bash anything."

Tina besides described the horrors of being trafficked.

"He was selling maine retired to men for sex," she said.

"He would thrust maine astir and enactment maine successful flats [and] would past person men travel successful and merchantability maine for sex.

"If I didn't bash arsenic I was told, I'd get beaten."

Tina said she archetypal reported the home unit successful 2009, but GMP said it had nary records.

After being arrested connected suspicion of theft the pursuing year, she said she again reported the abuse, but constabulary did nothing.

In a missive to Tina, the unit said it had nary grounds of that complaint.

In 2012, she reported to constabulary she was having suicidal thoughts owed to the maltreatment she had been suffering, but again, the complaints were ne'er followed up.

GMP person apologised for this and acknowledged the issues she raised should person been addressed.

Three years later, Tina provided constabulary with an extended magnitude of grounds to enactment the allegations of trafficking and abuse.

A twelvemonth later, an allegation of an offence nether the Modern Slavery Act was recorded against Tina's husband.

While an probe was launched, helium was ne'er arrested and is present understood to person near the UK.

In 2018, Tina told constabulary she nary longer supported the probe owed to the interaction connected her household and her deficiency of assurance successful however matters had antecedently been handled.

In a statement, GMP's Supt John Griffith said the unit was "committed to delivering outstanding work which cares for victims and keeps them harmless [and] important advancement has been made against this since Tina's interaction with the unit betwixt 2009 and 2015".

He said GMP's Modern Slavery Co-ordination Unit was established successful 2015 and had since been "widened to see a nationally-recognised portion which advises and supports territory and centrally-led investigations crossed Greater Manchester to guarantee the champion imaginable outcomes for those affected".

He said owed to a caller petition for the bureau of Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who oversees the force, "to reappraisal however the ailment into this lawsuit was handled", it would beryllium inappropriate to remark further, but helium urged victims of transgression to study incidents and maltreatment to police.

Tina said she had decided to talk to the BBC successful bid to support different women and girls.

"It's not conscionable young girls, it's older women too," she said.

"It tin hap to anybody.

"Just talk up and marque definite you're believed."

A typical for Mr Burnham's bureau said it would beryllium "inappropriate to remark further whilst we reappraisal the issues raised", adding: "This is simply a relation we instrumentality incredibly earnestly and reappraisal each requests thoroughly and fairly."

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