Gabriela Diac and her pimp partner Alexe Popa arranged for prostitutes under their control to sleep with punters at one of four squalid pop-up brothels. She and her pimp partner Alexe Popa, 30, arranged for prostitutes under their control to sleep with punters at one of four squalid pop-up brothels in Longsight , Rusholme and Levenshulme. Text messages from punters ranged from unvarnished requests for a range of fetishes to dozens of pleas for dangerous sexual practices.
The blunt message lays bare the grim working conditions endured by the prostitutes controlled by Diac and Popa. Living in shabby rented properties, they carried out their duties from dingy back rooms in terraced houses.
In one instance, police found two young women living in a two-up two-down mid terrace in Rusholme. Both crammed into a poky room on two single beds, they shared the space with a cooker and a sink. The front room was used as a place to have sex with dozens of punters, sent to them by Diac and Popa. The upstairs rooms were rented out to a tenant who had no idea of the illicit activities happening just a few metres below his feet, police say.
They show dark-haired women lying face down on a bed with words alluding to their vulnerable characteristics, such as shyness and a lack of language skills. The M. In one picture, a hollow-eyed young woman, dressed in jeans and a jumper, stares expressionless at the camera. When the Romanian national, who moved to Manchester in , was arrested she claimed she was fielding messages from people who wanted companionship with Romanian women.
Popa, 30, was jailed for 21 months today. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing false identity documents. Officers and immigration officials visited a flat on Willesden Avenue, in Longsight, last July and found two Romanian women inside. Three months later, as part of a human trafficking investigation, officers became aware of number of adverts on adult websites that were linked to Manchester. Potential customers would contact the online profiles and then be directed to the brothel by the pair.
