A woman who controlled and trafficked prostitutes in Northern Ireland has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Rong Chen, 35, conned women into coming to Northern Ireland believing they would work as child minders.
Instead the illegal immigrants worked as prostitutes or housekeepers while isolated in squalid flats using threats of murder and deportation should they try to escape.
Mr Justice Ben Stephens said: "You trafficked four woman as an adjunct to and to facilitate a large-scale commercial operation of controlling prostitution for gain."
The Belfast court heard that Chen told the women her husband was a Chinese Triad gang leader and boasted of high-level police contacts.
She was caught after two prostitutes were detained at a port in Belfast in May 2009.
