TWO men from Swindon have been found guilty of keeping a woman prisoner in a Pinehurst house for eleven days and making her work as a prostitute.

On the morning of Saturday June 13 2009, Wiltshire Police received a call from a distressed woman stating that she was being held against her will at a house in Whitworth Road, Pinehurst, Swindon.

Officers quickly arrived at the property and met with the 30 year old woman who disclosed she had arrived in the UK from Poland on June 2 2009 and since that time had been forced to work as a prostitute at the address. She also stated that since her arrival she had been the victim of a number of sexual assaults.

Police arrested a 32 year old man at the scene on suspicion of false imprisonment and took the woman for medical treatment to Great Western Hospital in Swindon.

The next day, June 14 2009, officers arrested a 43 year old man on suspicion of trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and rape.

On Tuesday, Tomasz Sebastian Slabaszewski, 32, from Victoria Road and Jacek Stanislaw Sokolowski, 43, from Ascham Road, Grange Park, appeared before Swindon Crown Court charged with trafficking a person with intent to cause her to work as a prostitute, controlling or inciting a person to work as a prostitute for financial gain. Jacek Sokolowski was also charged with rape.

Both men were found guilty and will be sentenced at a later date.

Detective Constable Ed Russell, the officer in the case, said: “We are pleased with the verdict of the court and hope that this result is of some comfort to the victim.

She put her trust in these two men and they abused that trust in the worst way imaginable. The eleven days that she spent in that house was an extremely frightening and distressing experience for her and I would like to take this opportunity to commend her for her bravery in alerting police and helping us to bring these two men to justice.”