Sex workers are increasingly using apartments, Airbnbs and "normal houses" in Manchester as "pop-up" brothels making it harder for police to identify vulnerable women being exploited.
Det Const Colin Ward, of Greater Manchester Police 's specialist modern slavery unit, has said that many sex workers are now operating from short-term lets with "very few" massage parlours left in the city.
The experienced detective says the landscape of Manchester’s sex trade is ever-changing while Eastern European women - mostly Albanian and Hungarian nationals - still work around the industrial estates of Back Piccadilly and Great Ancoats Street, reported the Manchester Evening News.
