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good job it wasn't one of those slave-keeping pikey families then
>Nine members of a traveller family who kept workers in squalid conditions in caravans have been jailed for modern day slavery offences.
>One victim, whose ordeal spanned more than 25 years, was made to dig his own grave.
>The head of the family, Martin Rooney Senior, was jailed for 10 years, while two of his sons were each jailed for more than 15 years.
>The traveller family were described as "chilling in their mercilessness".
>The case at Nottingham Crown Court was part of Lincolnshire Police's Operation Pottery investigation, one of the largest investigations of its kind.
>The Rooneys' victims were beaten and left without running water or toilet facilities at the Drinsey Nook site in Lincolnshire.