TWO people from Redbridge Hollow charged in connection with keeping a 27-year-old man as a slave will appear in court today.

Michael Joyce, 24, from the site in Old Abingdon Road in Oxford, has been charged with one count of conspiring to hold another person in slavery/servitude and one of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour.

Helen Cash, 30, also from Redbridge Hollow has been charged with one count of conspiring to hold another person in slavery/servitude, two counts of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour and three counts of fraud.

Thames Valley Police said Paul Joyce, 32, of Redbourn Bypass, Redbourn, Hertfordshire, had been charged with conspiring to hold the man a slave and force him to work along with five counts of fraud and one count of assaulting the man occasioning actual bodily harm.

Ifran Iqbal, 29, of Millfield Walk, Hemel Hempstead, is charged with conspiring to force the man to work and one count of fraud.

Police said the alleged offences related to one victim, a 27-year-old man. All four will appear at Banbury Magistrates’ Court today.

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