A Latvian woman tricked into coming to the UK and then held prisoner for more than a year has been rescued after police swooped on a flat in Longsight.

GMP officers swooped after the woman’s mum rang interpol to say her daughter was being held against her will in Manchester.

She told the international crime agency her 36-year-old daughter had travelled to the UK after being promised work on a mushroom farm.

But when she arrived she found out the job didn’t exist and arrangements had been made to enter her into a forced marriage.

Officers raided the address just two days before the marriage was due to take place.

Two 31-year-old men and a 46-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and human trafficking.

Her suspected captors had installed metal railings over the windows of the property, seized her passport, and refused to let the victim leave the flat or use a phone without supervision.

The prisoner had no knowledge of her address and could only describe the flat and her surroundings to her mum.

The information was passed to Greater Manchester Police on August 18 and officers managed to locate the property less than 24 hours later.

Detective Inspector Dave Turner said: “Officers were able to act quickly on information from Interpol and rescue this woman.

“From what we have established so far, we believe this woman was lured into the country and kept against her will in a number of addresses, unsure whether she would ever be able to see her family again.

“We have to commend her bravery, defying her captors to pass the vital information about her whereabouts to her mother and thus assist her own rescue.

“We should also commend the fast actions and fine police work of the officers on the ground, who were able to make three arrests.”

It is believed the woman had been moved around several addresses in the Longsight area since arriving in Manchester around eight months ago. It is believed she was held against her will in the UK for 14 months.