Slovakian couple jailed for trafficking Roma women into the UK

  A Slovakian couple who trafficked two women to the UK to try and force them into sham marriages or prostitution have been jailed for a total of 12 years. Jaroslav Slepcik and his wife Svetlana Plachetkova, both 38, recruited women from Lunik IX, a slum in the Kosice area of Slovakia where many Roma gipsies live, to Gravesend, Kent. Once in Britain, the couple tried to sell the victims to Asian men trying to gain EU citizenship. When they…