Traffickers found guilty of forcing victims into slavery

were snatched. The women – who did not speak any English – were watched and never allowed out on their own.

The horrific crimes only came to light after one brave woman managed to escape and run to a shop in the southside of the city for help.

She spoke only Roma and Slovakian and the shopkeeper didn’t understand her. But he called the police.

The officers asked two young girls in the store to help with translation.

They then managed to work out that Gombar had her ID card. The document was found in Gombar’s flat in the city’s Allison Street and sparked a major investigation.

It was Gombar – along with accomplices in Slovakia – who found the women and brought them to the UK.

The court heard that one of the women was forced to have sex with two or three Pakistani men a day for at least eight months.

Prosecutor Kath Harper said: “Her autonomy was completely stripped from her and her body became nothing but a vehicle for Gombar and others to make money. It is perhaps hard to imagine a more callous and uncaring way to treat another human being.”

Sandorova and Adam were Gombar’s step-daughter and her partner. Wagle, from Nepal, became involved initially because he wanted to buy a bride.

The woman he “bought” claimed that he raped her although he was not charged with that offence.

Harper added: “Ratislav Adam was acting along with Gombar in controlling one woman and keeping her in servitude, if not slavery.

“He sold a woman in the city centre of Glasgow, along with Jana Sandorova, to Anil Wagle.”

The charges the four were found guilty of included intent to exploit women, holding some in slavery or servitude as well as causing victims to work as prostitutes.

Lord Beckett praised the Slovakian authorities in helping get justice in Scotland.

He said: “Without the invaluable, international co-operation, this trial could not have taken place.

“Their efforts have allowed justice to be done in relation to very serious and damaging criminal conduct.”