Pimp 'enslaved' woman before his girlfriend kidnapped her in Strangeways when she tried to break free

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A pimp who exploited a vulnerable woman who was ‘enslaved’ into prostitution has been jailed for a decade. Jean Marinel Mihai, 29, trafficked the woman into the country from her native Romania so he could profit from her.

He pocketed at least £100,000 while controlling the woman over a 15 month period while she was forced to be a sex worker on the streets of Manchester, meeting up to ten men a day. “She didn’t know what she was doing, where she was going, save and except that she was being moved to the UK to make money for Mr Mihai as a prostitute,” Judge Rachel Smith said at Manchester Crown Court. READ MORE: Dad's horrific death at hands of his own son 'highly unlikely' if routine test was carried out, judge says The judge said of Mihai: “He took all of her money, he assaulted her on a number of occasions.

She was frightened of him because there were occasions of physical violence. Mr Mihai would ring her every day to check up on whether she was working and how much money she was earning.” When the woman later received support from a charity, Mihai’s former girlfriend, Florentina Doina Urmuz, who previously controlled her when she was a sex worker in Romania, was then involved in kidnapping her so she could continue to be exploited. “You knew what she looked like, you would be able to speak to her on the street,” the judge said of Urmuz’s role in the kidnapping. “The kidnapping was pre-planned.

You and the two men in the car had travelled from the Midlands. She was frightened of you. “She was vulnerable, you knew that.