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A dad forced a woman to carry out sex acts on a different man every hour, took the money she was given and beat her if she didn't comply with his orders.

Florin Radu 'preyed' on the victim, who is in her 20s and believed she was coming to the UK to work as a waitress, a court heard.

The 33-year-old essentially kept her prisoner during the four month ordeal, reports the Manchester Evening News.

He went on the run before he was due to stand trial but was later arrested and is now beginning a seven-and-a-half year jail term.

Radu's victim, who couldn't speak English, came to the UK in August 2013 on a coach from her homeland in Romania.

She had been told when she arrived someone would meet her to help her find work as a waitress.

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Instead, Radu took her to a house, which the woman thought was in Bolton but is now believed to be in Birmingham, and she was 'forced into prostitution' Nigel Booth, prosecuting, said.

"She was ordered to carry out sex acts on men and was subjected to threats and violence if she failed to comply", Mr Booth added.

He said all the money that was handed over by the clients was taken by Radu, however he did buy her food.

After around two months she was moved to a number of different hotels, including in Wigan and also in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

She would be forced to sleep with men, seeing one man every hour and working long hours whilst Radu waited outside or in the lobby.

She was then moved again to a house in Fallowfield where she lived in a downstairs room 'with little food' and just a mobile phone that clients would use to call her on to make appointments.

Radu went everywhere with her and told her 'I don't want you to go out of my sight', the court was told.

He also hit her, bit her, kicked her and on one occasion hit her head against a wardrobe, Mr Booth said.

"Although it was not the case she was imprisoned, the situation as she saw it was that the fear of violence left her in no real position to leave the address alone," he added.

The woman was given around £100 a month at this point to send home to her children but Radu threatened to kill her if she asked for more, the court was told.

The victim, and another woman who was working for Radu, managed to flee at this point and after a few days sleeping rough ended up at a brothel in Oldham.

The woman was 'more willingly' sex working at this point - to try to earn money so that she could go home.

However, in November 2013 conditions got that bad she eventually ran out into the street and flagged down a passing police car and divulged the full extent of what had happened to her.

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She was then taken to a refuge in Sheffield. In total her ordeal lasted around four months.

Radu was eventually arrested at Luton Airport in March 2014 after being extradited on a European arrest warrant.

He said in interview that he met the woman off the coach, and had met her a few times since but indicated they were a coincidence and denied all the allegations against him.

He stood trial once at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court, however the jury were discharged and he failed to turn up for the re-trial in October 2015.

Radu, of no fixed address, was found guilty of trafficking for sexual exploitation, controlling prostitution for gain and two charges of common assault in his absence at Minshull Street Crown Court.

He was finally arrested and was sentenced on Tuesday morning at the same court.

James Gray, mitigating, said Radu - who has four children and a fifth on the way back in Romania - still maintained his innocence.

However judge Julie Warburton said a jury had already rejected his version of events.

Sentencing him to seven-and-a-half years behind bars, she said: "This woman was (in her 20s) when she came to the UK. She had no knowledge of the country, didn't speak the language and had no support network here.

"You went to meet her off the coach, which suggests there was a degree of pre-planning.

"And in short you preyed upon her and took advantage of her youth and vulnerability in a foreign country and trafficked her for prostitution.

"So disorientated was she initially she was unable to say exactly where the address she was being kept was.

"Your treatment of this poor, vulnerable young woman went on for a period of four months and you essentially treated her like a piece of your property, to do with as you wished."