Gangs using private schools to traffic Asian girls to UK
Private schools are making hundreds of thousands of pounds from Vietnamese children who are entering Britain on student visas then disappearing, it has been revealed.
Children thought to be as young as 15 are being brought to the UK by suspected trafficking gangs through legitimate visas sponsored by private schools, an investigation by The Times found.
Despite the students paying for a term at school they then often going missing within weeks of starting at the school.
The investigation carried out by the paper uncovered at least 21 Vietnamese children who have vanished from boarding schools and private colleges across Britain in the past four years.
The investigation was carried out without the schools knowledge.
They are mostly girls with what is known as the ...