MILLIONAIRE MADAM WITH 40 HOOKERS AND BROTHEL IN MAYFAIR GETS 10 YEARS Paid thousands at time into 27 bank accounts £40 for hand relief and £150 an hour for full sex Women kept as slaves

A MILLIONAIRE madam who ran two brothels and kept a Romanian woman enslaved to fund home improvements has been jailed for 10 years.

Ann O’Brien, 44, and husband Martin Carroll, 47, splashed out on a loft conversion, ground floor extension, designer kitchen several giant flat screen TVs and even spent £10,000 on curtains.

O’Brien opened her first three-girl escort agency in 1997 after leaving a small village in Kenya and heading to Ireland where she married her first husband Patrick O’Brien.

She was soon managing 40 prostitutes and paying thousands of pounds into 27 bank accounts each week.

She paid a £400,000 deposit to buy a £1.27m Georgian townhouse in swanky Upper Berkeley Street, Mayfair, to run as a brothel.

O’Brien also ran two websites dubbed “brothels on wheels” which sent girls to homes and hotel rooms.

Her sex menu offered everything from £40 hand relief to £150 for hour-long sex sessions with girls from as far afield as Thailand, Brazil and Sweden. SWANKY: O’Brien’s flash knocking shop

O’Brien was convicted of three counts of controlling prostitution in 2005 but let off with a 180-hour community punishment order and made to pay back £600,000.

Officers from the Met’s financial investigations unit seized assets including the madam’s Kilburn High Road hairdressing salon, her car and what remained in her bank accounts.

But soon O’Brien had started business again, running two bordellos with her husband and sister.

She was convicted of charges including conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and facilitating travel of another person with a view to exploitation after her latest Southwark Crown Court trial.

Carroll and O’Brien’s sister Elizabeth Muya, 48, were found guilty of conspiracy to convert criminal property and two counts of keeping a brothel for prostitution.

Judge Simon Russel-Flint, QC, said: “This was serious criminality that exploited many people of considerable vulnerability.

“In Ms O’Brien’s case this is the fourth time that she has been before a court for similar offending in respect of prostitution or management of brothels and I am satisfied that they do present as an escalation. SISTER: Elizabeth Muya EXPLOITS: Ann O’Brien and ( Martin Carroll

“This was a well run commercially profitable enterprise from which you have all gained and stood to gain further.”

Prosecutor Alexander Agbamu said: “Ann O’Brien and Elizabeth Muya ran two London brothels.

“They, along with Martin Carroll, laundered the proceeds of those brothels through sham companies which they had set up.

“A number of people worked at these brothels. One of those people had been trafficked from Romania and was subjected to conditions which amount to modern slavery.”

Police began investigating in March last year at Stansted Airport when a Romanian man and woman made UK Border Force officers suspicious. The woman had no money, no phone and no return ticket and said the man, Lucian Grosu, was her boyfriend.

Later that day police from the Modern Slavery and Kidnap Unit went to Grosu’s address in Cricklewood, north-west London, and arrested him.

Mr Agbamu said: “Mr Grosu had put her at 65 St Michael’s Street as a sex worker.

“Two women ran the brothel. They were Barbara, who was the boss, and Lucy. Ms Banciu understood that the women were sisters.”

Barbara was O’Brien’s alias and Lucy was Muya’s.

Grosu has already been convicted of facilitating the travel of another with a view to exploitation.

O’Brien, of Cricklewood, admitted conspiracy to convert criminal property and one count of keeping a brothel for prostitution.

She denied but was found guilty of conspiracy to control prostitution. She was jailed for 10 years.

Muya denied but was found guilty of the same charges and got 21 months.

Carroll denied but was found guilty. He was spared jail for the sake of his daughters and sentenced to 18 months suspended.