Yulia was making a cup of tea in the kitchen when she got interrupted by the refuge receptionist on duty that morning saying that she had a phone call. Unsure who would be calling her, she went to answer it nervously.
Turned out it was her victim support officer, who had been assigned to her case against the traffickers. Luckily, this woman was much more pleasant and effective than her social worker, and didn’t seem to struggle so much to understand Yulia’s accent.
She explained that the police had found her identity documents and passport in the trafficker’s possessions, which seemed to confirm the story that she had told them that she was trying to get here legally. Unbeknownst to her, the entry requirements for the UK had changed in the last year, meaning that you didn’t need to be
