The victim, identified only as Victim A, waited so long for restitution that his captors, who beat him, fed him scraps, and forced him to lay driveways for little or no money, were released from prison.
His sister stated that the £352,000 settlement payment would cover round-the-clock care for her “lovely brother.”.
However, lawyers claimed that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) was “not fit for purpose” because 15 other individuals kept captive with Victim A died before they could pursue comparable action. CICA stated that it does not comment on specific instances.
While the Rooney family lived an opulent lifestyle, they kept Victim A, a man in his fifties, in squalor on a Lincolnshire traveler’s site.
A 2017 trial at Nottingham Crown Court revealed that the family violently exploited their victims, who were mostly homeless or males with intellectual difficulties.
The conviction of 11 members of the family became the largest contemporary slavery case in British legal history.
