Cafe owner cleared of keeping ‘slave’ barista

A woman accused of forcing a student to work as a virtual slave at her Tube station cafe for two years has been cleared after a jury failed to reach a verdict. Lina Thakrar, 52, forcing the woman to serve coffees for up to 15 hours a day in the Espresso cafe on the Jubilee Line concourse at Stratford Station in east London, it was claimed. But the jury at Blackfriars Crown Court told Judge Jane Sullivan that there was…