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Police chief’s human traffickin­g shock

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and human traffickin­g issues in general. He said: “It’s often the case that those who have been trafficked do not realise they have been trafficked.

“It’s happened in Perth and will continue to happen.

“The incident down south is utterly tragic. It has an impact here.

“Were they destined for

He posted on Twitter saying: “I have a majority of 21.

“The last time the Greens contested Perth and North Perthshire they got over 1000 votes.

“Our independen­ce comrades know that they possibly can’t win here.”

Conservati­ve Luke Graham will also be looking to get re-elected.

He won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat off the SNP’s Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh in the 2017 snap General Election.

Luke Graham will be up against John

Perth? We look into everything – ultimately, last week showed us this can have a horrific outcome.”

Police are currently investigat­ing the death of the migrants.

Suspects are being held in both the Republic of Ireland and Vietnam, as well as in the UK where the driver of the lorry appeared in court yesterday in connection with the deaths.

Earlier this year, a Chinese woman admitted traffickin­g other women

Nicolson for the SNP and Iliyan Stefanov for the Lib Dems.

Lorna Robertson will be the Labour candidate for the constituen­cy – the seat had previously belonged to Labour from 2005 until 2015.

The Scottish Green Party has not announced whether or not it will field a candidate for the Ochil and South Perthshire seat.

Cllr Dave Doogan, who represents Perth City North at Perth and Kinross Council, will be standing as the SNP candidate for Angus. to work in the sex industry in Perth and Dundee.

In September, a Perth beauty salon was issued a civil penalty referral notice by the Home Office after it was allegedly found to be employing a 35-year-old Vietnamese man who had no permission to work in the UK.

In November last year at the same salon, a man was seized by police and immigratio­n officers during a three-hour raid. And in November 2016, two Vietnamese people were arrested as part of a border police swoop. Only three months earlier, three Vietnamese men were detained in a similar raid.

The searches in 2018 and 2016 came as part of a crackdown on suspected human traffickin­g.

In October last year, we reported that six people had been freed from alleged human traffickin­g in Perth.

The incident down south is utterly tragic – it has an impact here

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