‘Please help us’: Note found in Tesco Christmas card alleges forced prison labour
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‘Please help us’: Note found in Tesco Christmas card alleges forced prison labour
Description
December 22, 2019
British supermarket giant Tesco suspended a Chinese supplier of Christmas cards on Sunday after a six-year-old girl and her family in London found a message written inside saying it had been packed by foreign prisoners who were victims of forced labour. The message also asked the reader to “contact Mr. Peter Humphrey," a British former corporate investigator who was jailed in 2014
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‘Please help us’: Note found in Tesco Christmas card alleges forced prison labour02:36 | December 22, 2019
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Canada-wide warrant issued for woman wanted in Toronto murder00:29 | September 9, 2024
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‘Burned human remains’: Body of missing Ontario real estate agent identified02:57 | August 22, 2024
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‘We have nothing to hide’: Ford addresses RCMP’s ongoing Ontario Greenbelt investigation00:20 | August 9, 2024
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Whitby family speaks out after wrong way crash kills 3-month-old son, parents00:38 | May 6, 2024
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‘Someone’s going to get hurt’: Police recordings offer new insight into wrong-way chase on Ontario’s Highway 40102:18 | May 2, 2024
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Baby, grandparents killed in Ontario wrong-way police chase01:43 | April 30, 2024
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London sword attack: Teen killed, 4 injured by man on stabbing spree01:08 | April 30, 2024
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Peel police explain how unprecedented gold, money heist occurred02:24 | April 17, 2024
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Former Thunder Bay police chief arrested, charged with 2 counts of obstructing justice00:40 | April 12, 2024
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‘Please help us’: Note found in Tesco Christmas card alleges forced prison labour02:36 | December 22, 2019
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Baby, grandparents killed in Ontario wrong-way police chase01:43 | April 30, 2024
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London sword attack: Teen killed, 4 injured by man on stabbing spree01:08 | April 30, 2024
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Peel police explain how unprecedented gold, money heist occurred02:24 | April 17, 2024
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Multiple people arrested in connection with $20M+ in gold stolen from Toronto’s Pearson airport00:44 | April 17, 2024
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Ontario mother speaks out after daughter’s dog stolen from fenced backyard02:44 | April 16, 2024
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Former Thunder Bay police chief arrested, charged with 2 counts of obstructing justice00:40 | April 12, 2024
‘Please help us’: Note found in Tesco Christmas card alleges forced prison labour
Description
December 22, 2019
British supermarket giant Tesco suspended a Chinese supplier of Christmas cards on Sunday after a six-year-old girl and her family in London found a message written inside saying it had been packed by foreign prisoners who were victims of forced labour. The message also asked the reader to “contact Mr. Peter Humphrey," a British former corporate investigator who was jailed in 2014
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