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"Modern-day slave" lived in captivity for 40 years before authorities found him

According to the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority, a potential victim of modern slavery has been rescued after living in a shed for 40 years.
PUBLISHED OCT 5, 2018

After spending the last four decades living in an unheated shed, an English man has been rescued in a case law enforcement has described as "modern-day slavery." About 10 miles from the Scottish border in England, near the city of Carlisle, the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority on Wednesday discovered a 58-year-old man during a raid at a residence in the region. The man was found in an extremely poor condition in a shed with only a chair and badly stained bedding.

GLAA's Martin Plimmer said in a statement obtained by BBC: “We found him he was like a rabbit in headlights and very confused. He was just in the clothes he stood up in, and where he was sleeping in the shed there was just a soiled duvet on the floor,” Plimmer told the outlet. “There was no heating, and it was very cold. It was conditioned that no human being should live in.”

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