‘I thought they’d work me till I died’

A student who claims she was forced to do 15-hour shifts at a Tube station cafe told a court she feared she would work there until she died. Lina Thakrar, 52, and Praful Thakrar, 55, allegedly made the woman work for up to 15 hours a day in the Espresso cafe on the Jubilee Line concourse at Stratford Station. The cafe was owned by Praful but managed by Lina. Blackfriars Crown Court heard the woman was born in India and…