Migrant tricked woman into selling sex at city bus station
A PEOPLE-TRAFFICKER has been jailed for nine years for tricking a middle-aged mother into travelling to Britain to work as a cleaner – then forcing her to become a prostitute.
Hungarian migrant Jozef Sztojka, 36, made the woman sell unprotected sex for £30 at a bus station.
He took her money and identity documents as soon as she arrived in Britain from Budapest in March.
She had been desperate to earn cash to afford a home for her young son.
After travelling to Leeds, the victim, who spoke virtually no English, was told there was no cleaning job.
She was ordered to become a sex slave at the city’s central bus station if she wanted food and money.
She managed to run away from Sztojka after five days and alerted police. At Leeds Crown Court this week, he was found guilty of arranging travel for sexual exploitation.
Judge Neil Clark said: “She was to be used as a slave for you in what can only be described as the very seediest of circumstances. It is not just slavery, you forced her in to prostitution.”
Sean Smith, defending, said Sztojka worked at a car wash on arrival in Britain and was sending money home for his partner and child but turned to crime after being injured in a road crash and left unable to work.
He faces deportation on leaving jail after the judge said: “I can’t see what benefit he brings to this country.”