DESCRIPTION:
The Rooney Family lived on a travellers site in Drinsey Nook, Lincolnshire. They splashed out on plastic surgery, driving top of the range BMW cars, while wearing expensive Rolex watches and designer outfits. They enjoyed luxury holidays to Mexico, Barbados, Egypt and Australia. An aerial shot of the land where they lived, pictured green fields surrounding a collection of single-story red brick homes with a few dilapidated caravans nearby.
The reasons the Rooneys were able to enjoy the extravagancies they did, lived in those caravans.
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REFERENCES:
BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-40903474
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-41366565
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-43796222
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-44732708
LINCOLNSHIRE LIVE
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/15-appear-court-lincoln-charged-100122
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/how-police-cracked-modern-slavery-315010
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/eleven-people-convicted-modern-slavery-314159
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/rooney-victims-found-confused-dishevelled-444076
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/i-thought-were-going-kill-466358
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/another-rooney-family-member-goes-1332689
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/modern-day-slave-notorious-rooney-1753735
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/medieval-judge-locks-up-9-460470
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/a-devoted-grandfather--court-458478
THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/05/judge-cleared-of-making-inappropriate-comments-in-modern-slavery-case
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/12/family-members-lincolnshire-jailed-chilling-slavery-case-rooney
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/30/modern-day-slavery-costs-uk-up-to-43bn-a-year-says-home-office
THE TELEGRAPH
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/11/uk-family-convicted-for-keeping-slaves-for-up-to-18-years/
LINCS FM
https://www.lincsfm.co.uk/news/local-news/twelfth-member-of-rooney-family-sentenced-in-modern-slavery-case/
GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/section/45
HULL DAILY MAIL
https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/family-who-picked-up-people-2330752
NATIONAL CRIME AGENCY
http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/crime-threats/human-trafficking
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