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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Kelly-Anne Mills & Louisa Gregson

Filthy, freezing six-foot shed where father and son kept man as a slave for 40 YEARS

A father and son who kept a man as a slave for 40 years has avoided being sent to prison.

Peter Swailes was given a nine-month prison term, suspended for 18 months in court this morning, for his sickening crimes.

He was initially charged alongside his 80-year-old father, also called Peter Swailes, with Modern Slavery Offences - but his father died last year shortly before standing trial.

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