Ivett Szuda, 32, and her British husband Karl Ring, 34, enjoyed luxury lifestyles on the cash they made from their sex workers at Chelsea Cloisters β owned by Tory donor Christopher Moran. Mum-of-two Szuda, who told the trial she had also worked as a sex worker, lured women to work in London using online ads.
But after a nine-week trial a jury convicted Szuda of two charges of trafficking, four of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation and 11 counts of controlling sexual exploitation relating to nine women who cannot be named. Ring was convicted of six counts of sexual exploitation for gain and one of arranging or facilitating travel for exploitation.
The couple were both found guilty of controlling prostitution for gain and possessing criminal property and will be jailed at a later date. They were cleared of forcing their nanny into prostitution.
Jurors were in tears as some of the girls gave evidence at Isleworth crown court, West London, with many telling them they had to see nine or ten men a day. One of the women became a sex worker after working for the couple as their nanny. She revealed she ended up in the Cloisters after her family struggled with money.
Another girl, 25, said Szuda would take them to nightclubs to pick up punters and would give them cocaine. It was dirty. We pay for your stories!
