Cruel landlady jailed for punching & kicking vulnerable woman she kept as a slave for 16 years ordered to pay her £200k
A CRUEL landlady who punched and kicked a vulnerable woman she kept as a slave for 16 years has been ordered to pay her £200,000.
Shameless Farzana Kausar, 58, failed to pay Jacqueline Whittington for the gruelling work and even kept £80,000 of her benefits money.
The 62-year-old was made to cook, clean and look after Kausar’s three children at her various homes in London and Brighton.
Kausar would physically and mentally abuse Jacqueline – including one horror attack where she broke her ankle by slamming it with a car door.
The wealthy property owner also smashed the mum’s glasses into her face, ripped off her necklace and isolated her from friends and family – making her want to “kill herself”.
She was jailed for six years and eight months in December after being found guilty of keeping a person in slavery/servitude and perverting the course of justice.
Kausar has now been ordered to pay Jacqueline £198,000 within three months or faces longer in prison.
The amount includes benefits the scrounger took from her slave, as well as what her wages at minimum wage would have been.
Lewes Crown Court heard previously Jacqueline began renting a room from Kausar’s late mother back in 2004.
She was then subjected to a 16-year horror ordeal while being kept as a domestic slave.
Kausar took control of her victim’s finances and opened accounts in Jacqueline’s name so she could withdraw money for herself.
She also helped herself to the mum-of-four’s benefit money to pay the bills across her property empire.
Jacqueline suffered “control, violence and verbal abuse” at the hands of her captor, who failed to tell her when her mother had died.
Although her children came to visit, they were unable to see her when Jacqueline was in London as they did not know where she was.
Her mobile was also confiscated regularly and she was flown abroad with the family for holidays as Kausar sought to hide her from the world.
The nightmare only stopped when the alarm was raised by Kausar’s children’s nanny.
A modern slavery investigation was launched in 2019 but Kausar gave a letter claiming to be written by the victim to police withdrawing from the probe.
Jacqueline was removed the home but controlling Kausar contacted her and the victim was moved into one of her properties in London.
Police eventually discovered Jacqueline living in a box room in Ilford, East London, where she was then placed in safe accommodation.
Investigating officer Detective Constable Josh Bellamy said: “Farzana Kausar denied her victim the most basic of human needs during 16 years of control and manipulation.
“She amassed her own personal wealth while siphoning off her victim’s benefits, using her bank accounts to pay for bills and forcing her to work in her home without payment.
“Kausar is rightly behind bars and, while her vulnerable victim lost years of her freedom and must deal with the impact for the rest of her life, I hope these financial reparations go some way to compensating her for the treatment she has suffered.”