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Four men and a woman have been found guilty of smuggling women into the UK from eastern Europe and setting them up in hotels as prostitutes.Four men and a woman have been found guilty of smuggling women into the UK from eastern Europe and setting them up in hotels as prostitutes.
Mate Puskas, 25, Victoria Brown, 25, Zoltan Mohacsi, 36, Istvan Toth, 34, and Peter Toth, 28, had denied conspiracy to control prostitutes and trafficking for sexual exploitation. Mate Puskas, 25, Victoria Brown, 25, Zoltan Mohacsi, 36, Istvan Toth, 34, and brother Peter Toth, 28, had denied conspiracy to control prostitutes and trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Hove Crown Court heard more than 50 women were recruited in Hungary. Hove Crown Court heard at least 53 women were recruited in Hungary.
They were then brought into the UK via Luton, Heathrow and Gatwick airports.They were then brought into the UK via Luton, Heathrow and Gatwick airports.
Student accommodation
During their trial, jurors were told the "poor and vulnerable" women were chaperoned in small groups.
Some were put up in hotels and brothels in Eastbourne in East Sussex, Folkestone and Margate in Kent, and Woolwich in south-east London.
Other worked out of rooms in student accommodation at Sussex University.
Brown had worked as a PA at an engineering firm in Brighton, and was described in court as the logistical organiser of the operation.
Her former partner Puskas organised transport, hotels and clients, along with Mohacsi and the Toth brothers.
Puskas, of Billingshurst Road in Ashington, West Sussex, Brown, of Ockley Road in Bognor Regis, Mohacsi, from Cranbrook Road in Ilford, east London, and the Toth brothers, both of St John's Road, Eastbourne, will be sentenced later.Puskas, of Billingshurst Road in Ashington, West Sussex, Brown, of Ockley Road in Bognor Regis, Mohacsi, from Cranbrook Road in Ilford, east London, and the Toth brothers, both of St John's Road, Eastbourne, will be sentenced later.