While some people are obsessed with statues and streets named after dead people who may have had some connection with slavery centuries ago, others are thankfully more concerned about the exploitation in our midst today.
A glimpse into this modern form of slavery was to be had at Margate Magistrates Court last week in a hearing concerning the owner of a local car wash.
It had been visited by the Gangmasters And Labour Abuse Authority and Kent Police earlier in the year and now magistrates have issued an interim Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order against Genc Gjocaj, a 50-year-old from Albania now living in Battersea, south London.
