Cinderella in 2012 Britain: Romanian couple trafficked girl, seven, made her work as a slave and 'beat her like a carpet'

A Romanian gipsy couple were last night jailed for bringing a child into Britain and keeping her as a slave.

She was saved only when a 53-year-old man similarly kept as a slave in the garden shed of the family’s London council house escaped - and told police of a ‘Cinderella’ used as a servant.

Astonished officers found the seven-year-old girl had been forced to sleep on the floor, had no possessions beyond the filthy clothes she was wearing and had been ‘beaten like a carpet’.        More Read