![]() The court had heard that, from 2002, increasing amounts of money were deposited into her bank account. Meanwhile, Toma Carroll was jailed for two years for money laundering. A default sentence of three years imprisonment was imposed. Last year Clark was sentenced to two and a half years for conspiracy to control prostitution and one year for conspiracy to money laundering, to run consecutively.Ī confiscation order was also granted against her for €415,000. Some were shoved into coffins and witnessed chicken slaughter before they were trafficked from Nigeria and coerced into the prostitution ring. Instead, young women and girls were subjected to bizarre rituals to scare them into a life of prostitution. They were told they would be educated and become hairdressers or seamstresses. Others from Nigeria were trafficked into the UK believing they were escaping to a better life. Some women, mainly from Europe, were recruited through advertisements on the internet and through publications in the UK. The court previously heard one room in the house in Wales was a dedicated call centre where they co-ordinated their clients’ calls – receiving up to 300 in any one day for all their brothels throughout the UK and Ireland. The Premier League football boss caught visiting a brothel is terrified his sex sessions have been filmed and may be leaked on to the internet. Judge Bidder QC ruled Carroll’s assets, including multiple properties, were purchased with the proceeds of crime and that he was prepared to squirrel them away in properties abroad. ![]() The three were convicted in February 2010 after an international investigation by gardaí, the PSNI and Soca. He continued to run his family business from a rented house in the small hamlet of Castlemartin, in Pembrokeshire, with his partner Shamiela Clark, 33, and his 27-year-old daughter Toma Carroll.īoth women are also in prison for their roles in running the multimillion-euro prostitution network, which involved trafficking Nigerian women into Ireland and forcing them to work as prostitutes all over the country. The vice ring chief fled to Wales to avoid prosecution when he was quizzed by gardaí about his network of brothels. His assets include four houses in Wales, three houses in South Africa and four cars, including two Mercedes. The default sentence was invoked today after he failed to meet the deadline.Ĭarroll, 49, originally from Bagenalstown, Co Carlow will continue to owe the outstanding amount with an additional €510 per day accruing in interest.
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