Costel Tambac and Marianna Iova took mobile phones and identity documents from women they forced to work for them after they had been trafficked from Romania View 3 Images Costel Tambac has learned his fate in court (Image: West Yorkshire Police)

A vile pair who coerced young women into prostitution in Leeds have been jailed.

Costel Tambac, 50, and his partner Marianna Iova, 35, seized mobile phones and identification documents from women they enslaved after trafficking them from Romania, Leeds Crown Court was told on Friday (November 7).

Prosecutor Connor Quinn relayed to the court how one woman, just 19-years-old, was bundled onto a minibus bound for the United Kingdom in 2016 after receiving a Facebook message promising work.

Another woman, aged 25 at the time, was pu

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