Inside sickening UK slave ring where McDonald’s workers were forced to sleep in freezing garden shed & squalid caravans
Inside sickening UK slave ring where McDonald’s workers were forced to sleep in freezing garden shed & squalid caravans
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SLEEPING in a freezing shed, made waterproof using a blue tarpaulin held down by gym weights, a group of migrants lived in squalor while earning thousands of pounds for their traffickers. It was a far cry from the life they had been promised when they were lured to the UK by Zdenek Drevenak, 47, his brother Ernest Drevenak, 46, and four other gang members, all from the Czech Republic.
![[Roman Landa with colleagues at a McDonald's.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/roman-landa-colleagues-caxton-mcdonald-967096743.jpg?strip=all&w=794)
Over the course of seven years from 2012, at least 16 people from the country were turned in modern slaves in Britain, with no money or passports to escape their traffickers, who ruled over them using horrendous violence and threats. Homeless drug addicts were among the vulnerable victims preyed upon, forced to work up to 100 hours a week at businesses including a McDonald’s drive-thru in Cambridgeshire.
![[Clothesline outside a shed at night.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shed-enfield-czech-gang-slaves-967096848.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Meanwhile, the gang leaders themselves were making hundreds of thousands of pounds a year from the slave labour, splashing the cash on Versace gear and brazenly sharing snaps of £20 notes hanging from their Christmas tree. Now, after a tip-off from Czech police in 2019 brought the evil trafficking operation crashing down, victims have spoken out about their terrifying ordeal.
![[Interior of a shed where Czech gang slaves slept.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/shed-enfield-czech-gang-slaves-967096926.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Roman Landa was lured to Britain in 2016 and told how he was forced to work “at least 12 hours a day, six days a week” by the flashy crime ring. “They are pigs and they don’t care about anyone but themselves. All they care about is money, money, money.”.
![[Photo of Ernest and Zdenek Drevenak, brothers convicted of exploiting vulnerable migrants.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/two-brothers-ernest-zdenek-drevenak-967100587.jpg?strip=all&w=631)
