A man from Redbourn has been charged in connection with fraud and slavery offences in Oxford.
The offences, which include assault, conspiring to hold a person in servitude and forced labour, all relate to one victim, a 27-year-old man, police said.
Paul Joyce, 32, of Redbourn bypass, Redbourn, Hertfordshire, is charged with one count of conspiring to hold another person in slavery/servitude, two counts of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour, five counts of fraud and one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
Michael Joyce, 24, of Redbridge Hollow, Old Abingdon Road, Oxford, has been charged with one count of conspiring to hold another person in slavery/servitude and one count of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour.
Helen Cash, of the same address, is charged with one count of conspiring to hold another person in slavery/servitude, two counts of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour and three counts of fraud.
Ifran Iqbal, 29, of Millfield Walk in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, faces one count of conspiring to require a person to perform forced or compulsory labour and one count of fraud.
The defendents will appear at Banbury Magistrates' Court today.
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