A rich landlady who punched, kicked and verbally abused a susceptible girl she stored as a ‘home slave’ has been jailed.
Farzana Kausar, 58, regularly trapped Jacqueline Whittington, 60, over a interval of 16 years, by way of a marketing campaign of bodily, verbal and psychological abuse.
Ms Whittington was pressured to work 14 hour days, cooking, cleansing and taking care of her three younger youngsters. She was not paid for the ‘years of drudgery’ and noticed her advantages cash taken by the landlady.
Yesterday, Kausar was sentenced to 6 years and eight months behind bars after a jury at Lewes Crown Courtroom discovered her responsible of preserving an individual in slavery or servitude. Ms Whittington stays within the care of well being companies.
Farzana Kausar, 58, has been jailed for greater than six years after she stored an aged girl as a ‘home slave’ for 16 years
Lewes Crown Courtroom heard how Kausar, from Worthing, West Sussex, was a rich girl who owned a number of prestigious properties in Brighton and London which she rented out to tenants.
Ms Whittington – a long-term alcoholic – had left her husband and 4 youngsters within the Nineties. She first met Kausar round 2004 when she was dwelling in a flat in Worthing, East Sussex owned by the defendant’s mom.
Ms Whittington was requested to hold out some work for the household and was taken to London to hold out to brighten a home.
However whereas she was there Kausar advised her she wasn’t needed again on the Worthing flat and would as a substitute be housed in London.
Shortly afterwards she moved in with Kausar, her husband Mohammed Hanif and their younger daughter Isla.
Initially she labored as a live-in home servant, finishing up family chores whereas staying at a wide range of addresses in London and Brighton.
Ms Whittington was ‘made to work unconscionably lengthy hours’ and subjected to such worry of Kausar’s rages or violence that she spent her life ‘treading on eggshells’.
The sufferer didn’t have an employment contract and, though Kausar promised to pay her for her work, the mother-of-four by no means acquired a wage. As an alternative Kausar took full management of her sufferer’s funds.
She would open and withdraw cash from financial institution accounts in her title and making profit claims on her behalf.
The 62-year-old’s financial institution accounts had been additionally used to pay payments from throughout Kausar’s property empire and her title was used to register Kausar’s automotive for disabled use – permitting her to dodge highway tax and park in disabled bays.
Kausar, who despatched her daughter to the unique £14,000 a yr Roedean women’ college, took Ms Whittington’s advantages from her although she commonly purchased her cigarettes and alcohol.
Through the years, the courtroom heard, that Kausar took round £80,000 value of advantages from Ms Whittington.
Kausar would additionally would accompany the Ms Whittington to all of her medical appointments – pretending to be her carer.
The jury was advised Kausar additionally attacked the mother-of-four in a rage, tore a necklace from her throat and smashed her glasses into her face, inflicting a laceration.
The property proprietor as soon as barged her means into a physician’s consulting room as Ms Whittington was in the course of an appointment. Kausar would accompany her to all of her medical appointments – pretending to be her carer.
Police had been first alerted to the landlady’s callous remedy in Might 2019 when the household’s nanny, Michelle Ormiston, witnessed the ‘stunning’ remedy of the live-in helper.
Ms Ormiston – who had been employed to help Kausar’s household – reported that the sufferer was subjected to abuse and seemed to be finishing up a lot of the family chores whereas additionally dwelling on the handle.
Grownup Social Providers and police had been alerted concerning the scenario. Officers paid a go to to the handle the place they discovered all the sufferer’s belongings had been in black bin baggage, whereas she was pressured to sleep within the youngsters’s bed room.
She had no entry to her ID paperwork, passports or financial institution playing cards, which had been present in a locked room – together with monetary paperwork made out in her title to addresses to which she had no connection.
Kausar was arrested on suspicion of contemporary slavery offences and assault, and was launched on conditional bail whereas police continued to make enquiries.
The sufferer was briefly housed in Brighton and Hove and supported by social companies, however disappeared a short time later.
Her telephone numbers had been disconnected, she left her GP and made no contact with any of the help companies.
The 62-year-old solely resurfaced when the officer in control of the case acquired a letter – supposedly from the sufferer – retracting her allegations and claiming it was an elaborate set-up by the informant to get Kausar into bother.
However in Might 2020 police had been in a position to hint the sufferer to an handle in London.
Kausar was charged with holding an individual in slavery or servitude between August 2015 and Might 2019.
She was additionally charged with trying to pervert the course of public justice by getting Ms Whittington to withdraw her costs.
Yesterday she was sentenced to 6 years for the primary cost and eight months for trying to pervert the course of justice.
Fashionable slavery legal guidelines had been solely launched in 2015 in response to a rising want for laws.
Decide Christine Laing KC, mentioned throughout her sentencing: ‘No sentence I can cross can undo the hurt finished to Jacqueline Whittington, restore her relationship along with her family or restore the years and years of being disadvantaged of the liberty to reside her life her personal means’.
She mentioned the sufferer was a susceptible girl who clearly had difficulties with alcohol and had a strained relationship along with her family.
Decide Laing mentioned: ‘You exploited that vulnerability and had an entirely immodest disregard for her as an individual. You exerted an increasing number of management over her.’
She mentioned as she had no management over her personal life Ms Whittington grew to become an increasing number of depending on Kausar for her day by day wants which left her imprisoned in a ‘lifetime of drudgery.’
Decide Laing mentioned Ms Whittington was commonly abused each verbally and bodily by Kausar.
She mentioned: ’You subjected her to common bodily violence, slapping and punching and pinching and hair pulling and kicking’.
Decide Laing added the remedy meted out by Kausar led Ms Whittington to ‘take into account suicide.’
‘Her life has been destroyed and you’ve got been the key half in that’.
Ryan Richter, prosecuting, argued how the ‘defendant took management of Ms Whititngton’s life and remoted her so she grew to become reliant on her.’
He mentioned the violence started when Kausar threw a recycling field at her for leaving some cooked meat out within the kitchen.
When the household went overseas on vacation, Ms Whittington would journey with them to behave as their home servant.
She advised police that Kausar labored to isolate her from any contacts or pals and was an increasing number of controlling. She claimed that though she did possess a cell phone it was typically confiscated by the defendant.
And when her mom died, she solely came upon it had occurred weeks later and the funeral had already taken place.
Mr Richter advised the courtroom: ‘Mrs Kausar would inform her she would not final one minute if she went out on her personal and advised her, “No less than with me you could have a roof over your head.”’
He mentioned her management led to ‘years of drudgery’ that was accompanied by bodily, psychological and monetary abuse.
Mr Richter mentioned: ‘Ms Whittington was abused verbally and crushed bodily, slapped, kicked and punched and was dragged throughout the desk. A automotive door was closed on her ankle, fracturing it’.
The courtroom heard on account of the case Ms Whittington’s well being had utterly collapsed.
Decide Laing mentioned that though the indictment solely lined 4 years as a result of Parliamentary laws she couldn’t over look the very fact the management had began ‘a few years beforehand’.
She additionally beneficial that Ms Ormiston obtain a Excessive Sheriff award of £500 for elevating the alarm over the remedy of Ms Whittington.
