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February 3, 2020updated 30 Sep 2022 8:51am

Bristol Cable’s co-op member model helped it ‘persist’ with long-running slavery investigation

By Charlotte Tobitt

The Bristol Cable’s co-operative membership model helped it sustain a long-running investigation into claims of modern day slavery at an ice cream business, one of its co-founders has said.

The Ice Cream Slavery Case uncovered allegations of workers being kept in modern slavery conditions by Bristol businessman Salvatore Lopresti, as well as wider underpayment of staff.

The investigation won the Local Journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards last month.

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