Landmark judgment will apply to thousands who may otherwise have been sent back to home countries

Thousands of victims of trafficking who have been left to languish in the immigration system for years should be granted leave to remain en masse, the high court has said in a landmark ruling.

At the moment people the UK government accepts are foreign victims of trafficking can be sent back to their home countries, where they may be at risk of being trafficked again by the same criminals.

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