In April 2018, Sam was in her mid-20s and had recently arrived in London from New Zealand. Having run out of money, she went to an interview for work as an escort, which is where she met Nuruzzaman Shahin. He took her passport, told her he needed to inspect her body as part of the interview, locked her in a room in which she was dimly aware of camera equipment and raped her. She found out soon afterwards that he had also raped another woman, Gabrielle, and a third, Hannah. More survivors would continue to surface.
From this point on, she was trafficked by Shahin; that is a matter of fact, settled in a later case by the Home Office, yet he has never been charged with trafficking Sam, or anyone else.
