Sex ‘slave’ made £12k a month

A prostitute fled barefoot to escape her life as a sex slave, a court heard. Alan Cruz de Souza, 37, forced his victim, who cannot be named, to work in a brothel in King’s Cross while pocketing her earnings for himself, it is alleged. The Portuguese national initially lured the woman from her native Brazil to the UK under the pretext they would both work as escorts and make a fortune, Southwark Crown Court heard. But jurors heard that once…