Lawyer for ‘people smuggler’ accuses illegal immigrant of spending all his money on drink and drugs

A migrant who was illegally trafficked in the UK spent all the money he was paid by the people smugglers on drink and drugs, a court heard. Zdenek Drevenak, 47, his partner Monika Daducova, 43, and associates Jiri Cernohous, 48 and Martin Slovjak, 46, allegedly stole the wages of 12 victims and kept them in ‘invisible handcuffs.’ The migrants, eleven Czechs and one Slovakian, were promised a better quality of life in the UK, Southwark Crown Court has heard. But…