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Updated on 16 September 2009

By More4 News

A majority of women rescued in UK raids to tackle people smuggling in the sex trade have since disappeared, a More4 News investigation has found.

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The trafficking of women for sexual exploitation has been a high-profile target for government action.

Recent years have seen hundreds of police raids, as well as new legislation aimed at the men who use them.

But do official figures exaggerate the role forced trafficking plays in Britain's sex trade?

More 4 News has discovered that two-thirds of the women rescued in those brothel raids have since disappeared.

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