A couple who trafficked a young African woman to the UK to act as an 'all but free' house worker have been jailed.

Dela Logostou, 25, from Togo, was taken to Nigeria and then flown to this country to work as a nanny for Oluremi Omotoye and his wife Taiwo in Watford for six years.

Her name was changed to Salamatsou Rokosu and she was abused, both verbally and physically, and exploited by being made to work 60 hours a week.

At St Albans Crown Court on Friday, Oluremi, 49, and Taiwo, 43, of Sherwood Court, High Road, Leavesden, Watford, appeared for sentence having been convicted by a jury of trafficking a person for exploitation in December.

He was jailed for 30 months and his wife, who had been responsible for physical assaults, was jailed for 36 months.

Jailing them, Judge Jonathan Carroll said the wife was the 'driving force' in her being illegally trafficked.

He told her: "Your objective was to have an all but free live-in house worker to use as you saw fit."

The victim, he said, had come to the UK on the false promise of financial reward and an education. But once in the country, under fake employer documents, she worked for "less than a pittance."

The judge told the wife: "You were domineering, bullying and intimidating. You tolerated no dissent. She was nothing but an animal to you."

He said that her husband must have been aware of the sham application and the trafficking of the victim.

The couple must pay her £5,000 compensation.

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