20 Dec 2022

A seven-year-old girl was raped in insecure accommodation at a factory producing clothes for Tesco in Thailand while her mother sewed F&F jeans late in the evening ...

Her mother said she had been working unpaid overtime until 10pm, after which she returned to her room to find her daughter bleeding and in distress, having been raped by a colleague...

The girl and her mother are both claimants in a landmark lawsuit being brought in England against Tesco on behalf of 130 Burmese former workers at the VK Garment (VKG) factory, who are suing for alleged negligence and unjust enrichment ...

The attack happened on 4 August 2018 while the girl was sleeping in the room with her younger sister.

The rapist, who also worked at the factory, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison in December 2018.