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AN illegal immigrant and his gang of "sex slavers" were jailed for up to nine years each today after selling a terrified mother to a pimp on Interpol's "most wanted" list. The woman,who risked her life and shattered her foot in a desperate 20ft leap to freedom,was lured from Lithuania to Britain with promises of well-paid work. But what followed was a "despicable " nightmare of betrayal, fear and sexual abuse as her new "owner" abused her himself before renting her out to others. The 36-year-old wept as she told London's Middlesex Guildhall Crown Court how she had to wear lingerie and parade in front of would-be punters paying up to £150 a time. Finally,after secretly phoning her family for help,she leapt from one of the bordello's first-foor windows, narrowly "I felt that had I stayed, they would have tortured me to death," she said. The mother of three wept as she described hitting the pavement so hard she broke her foot. Among those in the dock was an Albanian, Riza Hoxha,45,of Sunnyside Road,Ilford, Essex,who was first exposed as a sex Hoxha was found guilty of one count of conspiring between April 24 and May 24 last year to "traffic a person to the Jailing him for eight years,Judge Duncan Matheson said he was clearly the "primary moving force in what went on ".
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