A TRAFFICKING victim forced into prostitution around Europe after being groomed to believe she was going to be a model has spoke yesterday of her relief at finding refuge in Britain.

Emma (not her real name), 23, was working as a hairdresser and studying part-time for an economics degree in her home country of Albania when a client convinced her to join his new modelling agency.

But he soon became her captor, moving her across Germany, Italy and Albania where she was forced into sex work and kept under constant lock and key.

The trafficking victim told her story as the new Modern Day Slavery Act comes into force today.

Emma escaped only when Italian police questioned her as a potential witness about crimes her trafficker had committed, and she was deported back to Albania.

Shunned by her family back home she fled on the back of a lorry to Britain.