Hong Chin was found guilty of controlling prostitution and plotting to traffic for sexual exploitation
A dog breeder who made more than £100,000 by trafficking women on a "sexual conveyor belt" across England and Wales has been jailed for four years.
Malaysian Hong Chin, 45, helped fund his daughter's private education by organising the prostitution of mainly Chinese women.
Following an Old Bailey trial, Chin was found guilty of controlling prostitution and plotting to traffic for sexual exploitation along with his former lover Ting Li Lu, 47, and his child's mother, Li Wei Gao, 44.
The court had heard how Chin ran a pit bull dog breeding kennel on a country estate in Esher, Surrey, where Gao lived in a converted barn with their daughter.
At the same time, the pair raked in thousands of pounds through the trade in trafficking women for sex work until the operation was shut down by Sussex Police in June 2015.
With Chin, Li Wei Gao raked in thousands of pounds through the trade in trafficking women for sex work
Ting Li Lu was Chin's former lover
They were helped by Lu, who Chin lived with in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, jurors heard.
Sussex Police were alerted to the illicit operation in February 2015 after one of the women reported being debt bonded.
Following extensive investigations, they identified 18 women from China, Hong Kong and Korea who were exploited for prostitution.
The women advertised sex services on adult websites and the contact number was fielded by the defendants who would organise and notify them of jobs.
The gang would use false details when they reserved rooms through Booking.com at hotels including Premier Inn, Travelodge, and Holiday Inn.
Hong Chin, 45, was sentenced by Judge Philip Katz QC at the Old Bailey while his co-accused will learn their fate on November 3
Ting Li Lu in her police mugshot
Between August 2013 and February 2015, Chin made a total of 92 hotel reservations on the online booking service, the court heard.
The women were sent to perform sexual services in hotels all over southern England and Wales.
The customers paid in cash on arrival and some of it was channelled into the accounts of Chin and Gao.
Li Wei Gao in her police mugshot
When police visited the rooms they frequently found them in disarray, with the detritus of prostitution in evidence, including condoms.
In his summing up, Judge Katz described the operation as a "sexual conveyor belt".
The victims have since returned to their home countries, except for one woman who gave evidence in the trial who has claimed asylum in the UK.
Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk
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