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'@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ - +A former couple are facing jail after they helped fund their child's private education by trafficking women into a "sexual conveyor belt" of prostitution across England and Wales.<br><br>Malaysian Hong Chin, 45, ran a pit bull dog breeding kennel on a country estate in Esher, Surrey, where his ex-partner Li Wei Gao, 44, lived in a converted barn with their daughter.<br><br>At the same time, the pair raked in more than £100,000 through the trade in trafficking women for sex work until the operation was shut down by Sussex Police.<br><br>Hong Chin, Li Wei Gao and Ting Li Lu<br><br>They were helped by Chin's then-lover, Ting Li Lu, 47, who he lived with in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, jurors heard.<br><br>Following a trial at the Old Bailey, all three defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to control prostitution for gain between February 2013 and June 2015.<br><br>They were also convicted of plotting to traffic for sexual exploitation into the UK between March and June 2015.<br><br>The defendants were found guilty on all charges by a majority after the jury deliberated for more than 14 hours.<br><br>Sussex detectives had identified 18 women from China, Hong Kong and Korea who were allegedly exploited for prostitution.<br><br>But they came up across a wall of silence from the women, many of whom denied being involved in the sex trade, with only one prepared to give evidence in court.<br><br>A vulnerable woman (left) is booked into a hotel by Li Wei Gao (Sussex Police/PA)<br><br>Investigators gathered other evidence from mobile phones, adult websites and booking records as well as CCTV footage which showed the defendants escorting women to hotels around the country.<br><br>The women advertised sex services on adult websites and the contact number was fielded by the defendants who would organise and notify them of jobs.<br><br>The gang would use false details when they reserved rooms through Booking.com at hotels including Premier Inn, Travelodge, and Holiday Inn.<br><br>Between August 2013 and February 2015, Chin made a total of 92 hotel reservations on the [https://e-globaltravel.gr/ ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΑ ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΑ ΙΝΤΕΡΝΕΤ ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΑ ΒOOKING ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΑ ΚΡΑΤΗΣΕΙΣ ONLINE BOOKING HOTELS ONLINE ΞΕΝΟΔΟΧΕΙΑ ΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΕΣ] booking service, the court heard.<br><br>The women were sent to perform sexual services in hotels all over Southern England and Wales, including Maidstone, Cardiff, Brighton, Gatwick, Eastbourne, Southampton, Woking, Exeter, Guildford, Windsor and Bournemouth.<br><br>The customers paid in cash on arrival and some of it was channelled into the accounts of Chin and Gao.<br><br>... and just downstairs is @SECAmbulance ... so reassuring Modern Slavery is on the agenda @daren_mochrie @sussex_police pic.twitter.com/C2rPeuThuj<br><br>- CC Giles York (@CCGilesYork) October 4, 2017 When police visited the rooms they frequently found them in disarray, with the detritus of prostitution in evidence, including condoms.<br><br>In his summing up, Judge Philip Katz QC described the operation as a "sexual conveyor belt".<br><br>Chin had a fake British passport and went by various different names including Ricky, Goon Saw and Ken.<br><br>His ex-partner used a false passport in the name of Xin Pan and also was known by the alias Jassica, the court heard.<br><br>The victims, many of whom were believed to be debt-bonded to traffickers in China, had rejected offers of support from authorities and all but one returned to their home countries.<br><br>The woman who gave evidence in the trial has since claimed asylum in the UK.<br><br>Chin, of Dunstall, Burton-Upon-Trent, Gao, of Heathside, Oxshott, and Lu, of Portsmouth, denied the charges against them.<br><br>Chin and his two Chinese co-defendants will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on a future date to be fixed. '