Makela, a mother of two, had been trafficked from her African village to the UK by a British man who had befriended her in hospital. She had been tortured, beaten and left for dead by her villagers, who accused her of witchcraft after the sudden death of her abusive husband.

The Briton – “a good person”, thought Makela, now 29 – brought her to the UK to “take care of her”. Her older daughter also came. The man would not take Makela’s younger daughter, whom she had to leave behind with her one remaining friend.

Takes more than a lifetime to become a British man. You mean one of her own kind with a British passport? That's precisely what we are moaning about, immigrants using the UK as a place of crime- a place to do their dirty businesses.

Anyway we were talking about the Pattayan girls, I thought that was obvious. In any ecent we were talking about women who can make their own choices. It is my hope that before this unfortunate goes back to Africa we compensate her for allowing that criminal to abuse her.