Four in dock on slavery charges

Three brothers and their brother-in-law have appeared in court charged with enslaving four men found at a travellers’ site.

James (Jimmy) Connors, 23, Tommy Connors, 27, and Patrick Connors, 19, appeared at Luton Magistrates’ Court yesterday along with brother-in-law James (Big Jim) Connors, 33.

The charges relate to four alleged victims who were removed from the Greenacres travellers’ site in Bedfordshire after police carried out a raid on Sunday.

The charges were brought under section 71 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, which came into force last year.