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Couple jailed for running brothels
4:30pm Thursday 15th May 2008
A COUPLE who ran brothels raking in tens of thousands of pounds a week have been jailed for 12 months each.
Andrius Zubinas, 34, and girlfriend Edita Zubkova, 40, ran two brothels in west London.
Zubkova, the brothel secretary, handled the cash while Zubinas kept an eye on the prostitutes.
Southwark Crown Court heard the couple's prostitutes were paid a pittance but each woman earned the pair up to £2,000 a week.
The couple were arrested last December after a 23-year-old woman claimed they had smuggled her into the UK from Lithuania and forced her into a life of "virtual slavery" at the brothels.
The pair, of Watermead Way, Thamesmead, were cleared of conspiracy to falsely imprison and conspiracy to traffic a person for the purposes of sexual exploitation between December 1, 2006, and June 1 last year. They had denied the charges.
But they both pleaded guilty to controlling prostitution for gain.
Judge Michael Gledhill yesterday sentenced both defendants to one year in prison.
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matt, bromley says...
7:52pm Thu 15 May 08
No doubt this will disappear, says...
8:12pm Thu 15 May 08
mike, bromley says...
8:22pm Thu 15 May 08
Wiseman, Space says...
7:11am Fri 16 May 08
No doubt this will disappear wrote:You out of a job then love??
Glad you two clowns above think that it is funny to exploit and use women. By the sounds of it the women involved with this were that desperate that they put up with their lot in life. Do you really think that they did this through choice, would you allow yourself to be degraded for a pittance and a pair of lowlifes' gain?
Gobfull, Bex;ey says...
7:47am Fri 16 May 08
No doubt this will disappear wrote:Morning lentil bean eating guardian reading looney.............
Glad you two clowns above think that it is funny to exploit and use women. By the sounds of it the women involved with this were that desperate that they put up with their lot in life. Do you really think that they did this through choice, would you allow yourself to be degraded for a pittance and a pair of lowlifes\\\\\\\' gain?
Jack, Charlton says...
9:26am Fri 16 May 08
Sunny, London says...
11:10am Fri 16 May 08
Bet that's not all he kept an eye on!
Why do women get involved in this stuff when it could easily be them??
Karma, bring it on
Miss Hardyke, says...
12:36pm Fri 16 May 08
Gobfull wrote:"Morning lentil bean eating guardian reading looney".............
No doubt this will disappear wrote: Glad you two clowns above think that it is funny to exploit and use women. By the sounds of it the women involved with this were that desperate that they put up with their lot in life. Do you really think that they did this through choice, would you allow yourself to be degraded for a pittance and a pair of lowlifes\\\\\\\' gain?Morning lentil bean eating guardian reading looney.............
& a rug muncher.
No dout this will disappear, says...
4:44pm Fri 16 May 08
To Wiseman, Space (has an all knowing guru ring to this); Gobfull, Bexley and Hardyke.
Google search: sex trade 'is rape'
(sought this one expecially for your level.)
If having my opinion about this makes me a whore or a lesbian in your eyes then quite frankly I couldn't give a flying fig.
It is amazing how many scumbags visit the Newsshopper - I'm going back to my Guardian now.
known, thamesmead says...
10:46am Sat 17 May 08
kelly, london says...
1:00am Wed 4 Jun 08
adam wrote:i hope your son will be such nice as you,otherwise we all will be getting stressed very soon.
i hope they dont close these places, otherwise my dad will be getting very stressed very soon
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The pair were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court
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adam, bexleyheath says...
6:48pm Thu 15 May 08