"She had been provided with crack cocaine for free... and had been told not to leave": Pub accused of being used as a brothel where sex workers were paid in drugs loses its licence

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A pub allegedly being used as a brothel where trafficked sex workers were paid in drugs has had its licence revoked. Trafford’s licensing sub-committee today (Monday March 18) opted to revoke the licence of The Railway Inn on Manchester Road, Altrincham held by Rebecca Ellis following a closure order granted by Manchester Magistrates’ Court on February 21.

Ms Ellis and her father Richard Gerard Ellis are currently on police bail until May 14, pending a decision by the Crown Prosecution Service over whether charges will be brought against them.

Trafford council solicitor James Parry said that the Railway Inn was the subject of a visit by Greater Manchester Police and officers from the council on February 13. “In one of the upper rooms of the premises they discovered a woman who said she was a sex worker who advised the police in a statement captured on body-worn video that she had been trafficked to the premises,” he said.

Ms Ellis and Mr Ellis were arrested in respect of offences connected with the trafficking of sex workers in a brothel. READ MORE: Creamfields security guards opened Strongbow Dark Fruit cans and were shocked at what was inside Later that day the council issued a closure notice on the grounds that the use of the premises had ‘resulted in nuisance to members of the public and was likely to be the cause of disorder as a result of the premises being used as a brothel’.