Steve Rodhouse

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PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne. File photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press
Processing extradition warrants after Brexit could take a year, chief constable warns

PSNI chief constable Simon Byrne has said there is a “tacit acceptance” that in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Republic will (...)

Police stand guard in front of a property in Brixton, south London. Two people who allegedly held three women as slaves in their south London home for more than 30 years had been arrested previously in the 1970s, but did not say why. Photograph: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga
Modern-day slavery hidden in plain sight, bound by invisible handcuffs

Peckford Place, just a few minutes’ walk from the bustling centre of Brixton, is a neighbourhood where people live often for years knowing little abou(...)

Police stand guard at a property in Brixton, south London, where the three women lived. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
Couple arrested in slavery inquiry linked to 13 properties

The couple arrested in London over allegations that they enslaved three women, including one Irish, have been linked to 13 other properties, police ha(...)

Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland said the three women were beaten and forced to live a life of “invisible handcuffs”.
Women held for decades in ‘unremarkable’ London house now revealing their story

For now she is known only as “the Irish lady”. Her first bid for freedom came in a call to a charity from a carefully hidden mobile telephone on Octob(...)

A man walks near a road sign in Lambeth, London, today. British police have reported that three women who have allegedly been held for 30 years as slaves in a house in the Lambeth area of south London have been freed. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
‘Slave’ women endured ‘life of invisible handcuffs’

Three women, including one Irish, held for 30 years against their will in London endured a “life of invisible handcuffs”, subjected to beatings and la(...)