Updated: May 24, 2021, 12:06 pm
The Gin Cooperative hosts the largest directory of gins made in Scotland
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Local, independent and family-run business The Gin Cooperative has been dedicated to promoting Scottish gin since its inception.
The firm, launched in late-2017, was founded by Natalie and Martin Reid as an online resource dedicated entirely to Scottish gin.
Natalie and Martin recently extended their offering to include an online shop and subscription box service.
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The city business was managed by Ali, whose responsibilities included daily treatment of staff, their wages and payment for their transport to this country, plus their accommodation and rent collection.
“It is the prosecution case that the circumstances created by the defendants led to the freedom of these workers effectively being over-ridden,” Mr Reid alleged, “and that they were compelled to work long hours in bad conditions for little pay, their labour being exploited for the benefit of the defendants.”
Several workers, said the prosecutor, had identity cards taken away until travel cost debt was repaid; and were required to live in “very dirty” insect-infested multi-occupancy accommodation in Carlisle where rats were also seen.