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Witness Statement
(Criminal Justice Act 1967, section 9; Criminal Procedure Rules 2005, rule 27.1)
Statement of…...
Age if under 21…...
This statement consisting of two pages, signed by me, is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing that, if it is tendered in evidence, I shall be liable to prosecution if I have wilfully stated in it anything I know to be false, or do not believe to be true.
My name Melina Konstantinou and I twenty-one years old. I come from town in Albania called Puka in mountain. Is very poor town but I have Okay life here. Always meeting boys and drinking one beer or two beers in pub. I have nice boyfriend name Taqo. Then boyfriend uncle tell me about job in Greece and I think yeah Greece might be nice because you know little sister die and mother and the father they fight and they not happy. I already know Greece because grandfather is Greece. I think I go to Greece and make money. So we meet Taqo uncle at border and lots more of people and is very cold and wet yeah land and sea mix together a place we call kënetë and he give fake passport and say swim. But I do not swim. Then Greece policia come with dogs. The men are not nice. They beat me and dogs bite me. I am put in prison for fake passport. I not know what happen to Taqo or Taqo uncle. I think I should never leave home. Where mother? Where father? I sorry. Then one man come to see me in prison. He not a nice man. He feel my tits and say yes she is good. Policia let me go out of prison with this bad man say he my uncle but I do not have uncle I say no don't let me go with this man but they not listen to me. The man give policia money for my dorëzani. I scream and kick man but policia say I must go uncle pay dorëzani. The man take me to house. He says he kill me if I try to run away. He say he kill my family. In Albania bad men run everything even policia. I stay in house with many more girls. Men visit every hour every day. Some of them beat me and then jerk-off. Some of them have sex with me. Some of them give me drugs but I say no and I go still and do what they want. I have friend Sofia. She say be clever learn English so I learn from TV and magazine some girls leave behind. Always every day in house. No way out. One day different men come and they decide which girls pretty which girls ugly. They say this one pretty and they take me and Sofia and we are put in car. They say smile pretend you are having nice day so we smile and no-one ask us if we are Okay. Why they don't ask us if we are Okay why are we so far from home? I don't understand. Then we are put in metal box with many other girls. The bad men give us food and then close door. I hear bad noise we cannot get out. Metal box starts to move and little girls are scared. I say don't worry but Sofia she is worry. Metal box is moving on side I not know how long. We have no clock. We have no light. We have no more food. Sofia she not well I say don't be sick Sofia but she not talking now. There is nowhere to pee and there is nowhere to kanë një mut. The smell is bad. Sofia is sick. The little girls they cry always. I say help me God. I say sorry please stop bad men please stop metal box. Then Sofia she die. I hold her tight and I don't let go until box stop moving and I hear anglez policia. Help we say and little girls are screaming and crying. Then there is light in corner of box man says don't look hurt eye. I tell little girl don't look. The man says don't worry help is coming will be alright only he flet shqip and I say to myself this man he personi shqiptare he speak my language. Then box open and I see policia and I see man. He nice man and he help me walk and he say everything going to be alright you safe now but everything not alright I say why you take so long and I scream and I kick him and I hit him in chest but he hold me tight and I say Sofia she die and he says I know. I sorry and I know. Then Policia give blanket.
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