British Pakistani couple to pay 'slave girl' 100,000 pounds

October 15, 2014 22:15

A Pakistani-origin millionaire couple who kept a girl from Pakistan as a slave in their home in Britain have been ordered to pay her 100,000 pounds as compensation.

Ilyas and Tallat Ashar were jailed in October, 2013 after the girl was found in their cellar in the city of Salford in 2009. Now in her 20s, the woman, who is deaf, was repeatedly raped and forced to work at the family's many properties.

Manchester Crown Court ruled the couple must also repay more than 40,000 pounds of benefits falsely claimed in her name. According to a BBC report, it is believed to be the first time the Proceeds of Crime Act has been used in a case of modern slavery to reclaim that money.

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