Ashington man jailed for his part in trafficking Hungarian women into UK to work as prostitutes

By The Newsroom
Published 8th Jan 2014, 14:13 BST
This incident took place at Luton Airport on 29 February 2012 and involved girls who had just arrived from Hungary being picked up. Mate Puskas can be seen in the maroon shirt and Zoltan Mohasci with the black coat with yellow emblem. There is another suspect in a black coat and white trainers.This incident took place at Luton Airport on 29 February 2012 and involved girls who had just arrived from Hungary being picked up. Mate Puskas can be seen in the maroon shirt and Zoltan Mohasci with the black coat with yellow emblem. There is another suspect in a black coat and white trainers.
This incident took place at Luton Airport on 29 February 2012 and involved girls who had just arrived from Hungary being picked up. Mate Puskas can be seen in the maroon shirt and Zoltan Mohasci with the black coat with yellow emblem. There is another suspect in a black coat and white trainers.
An Ashington man has been jailed for his part in trafficking dozens of Hungarian women into the country to work as prostitutes.

This week Hove Crown Court heard how Mate Puskas, 26, of Billingshurst Road in Ashington, Zoltan Mohacsi, of east London, brothers Peter and Istvan Toth, of Eastbourne, and British national Victoria Brown, of Bognor Regis, trafficked more than 60 women into the country via ports and airports in the south east, including Gatwick.

The gang were sentenced to a total of 23 years in prison on Tuesday (January 7) following a ten-week trial.

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Puskas was found guilty of control of prostitution for gain, and of trafficking persons into the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation and sentenced to six years in jail.

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Suspicions were raised when Sussex Police referred separate incidents of prostitution to the Home Office, which were linked by Hungarian women who had travelled to the UK.

All the defendants were complicit in the offence of trafficking, said a Home Office spokesperson.