A deaf and mute girl treated as a virtual slave and and repeatedly raped by one of her captors after being trafficked into Britain has been awarded more than £100,000 from her wealthy tormentors.
The victim, who was brought to the UK from Pakistan at the age of 10, was subjected to a life of "misery and degradation" by Ilyas Ashar, 85, and his wife Tallat, 69.
The young girl, who is profoundly deaf and cannot speak, was beaten and forced to sleep and work in the cellar of the millionaire couple's five-bed family home in Cromwell Road, Eccles, in Salford.
She was forced to be at the wealthy elderly couple's "beck and call" 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Though her exact age is not known, the girl was also sexually abused from pre-puberty by Ilyas Ashar, and nd Ilyas Ashar was found guilty of 13 charges of raping her.
They were both convicted of a series of offences relating to the girl in October 2013 and are serving jail sentences.
Today, a lengthy post-trial Proceeds of Crime hearing in Manchester concluded, with the Ashars ordered to pay the girl £101,300.72 for forced labour, under a compensation order made by Judge Peter Lakin for the forced labour.
The couple are believed to have assets worth more than £1million.
It is understood to be the first time in the UK proceeds of crime legislation has been used to compensate a victim of human trafficking for forced labour.
The payment was calculated on the basis of what the girl would have been paid under minimum wage legislation for working for the Ashars for 12 hours a day, seven days a week, from 2003 until 2009 with only 10 days off.
The couple were also ordered to pay back £41,968 in benefits they claimed for her, almost £20,000 in a bank account in her name she had no access to and £321,957 in court costs - after the couple fought the case tooth and nail - and unsuccessfully took the case to the Court of Appeal.
Judge Lakin said the proceedings, involving three trials, were "unduly protracted" because of the Ashars, who also sacked their legal team at the final hearing in a "crude and cynical manoeuvre" to derail proceedings.
The couple must now hand over to the authorities just over £485,000.
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