The shocking moment a brothel owner tried and failed to hide six mobile phones behind her back after officers broke into her home to arrest her has been shared by police.
Lina Wang, Yuan Hang and Chung Fu Wang played leading roles in the prostitution of vulnerable victims in towns and cities across the UK including Canterbury, Chatham, Dartford, Gillingham, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells.
Some of the women were brought into the country illegally and forced into sex work to pay off family debts, including one who had no idea where she was.
Meanwhile, others were coerced into taking part in unsafe sexual practices such as not using protection.
When Lina Wang, 44, was arrested at her home Cambridgeshire in August 2021, she attempted to hide six mobile phones that fell to the floor from behind her back.
Dramatic footage shows her trying to hide the phones while leaning against a wall after police busted her front door down.
A female officer tries to take hold of Lina’s wrist, to which she refuses to take her hands from behind her back and asks ‘what’s happened?’
A male officer then replies: ‘She’s got something behind her – that’s the phones.’
Lina Wang (pictured) during her arrest at her home in Cambridgeshire in August 2021
Dramatic footage shows her attempting to hide six phones behind her back while leaning against a wall after police busted her front door down
Police broke through the front door after Lina refused to open it for them
Lina is then pulled away from the wall by the female officer, before six mobile phones loudly fall onto the wooden floor.
During a subsequent search of the property, officers found bank statements showing she was in possession of around £430,000.
Chung Fu Wang was arrested the same day in London, also surrounded by mobile phones and in possession of bank cards belonging to sex workers.
Yuan Hang had been arrested several months earlier when he gave himself up to police following a warrant at a London flat he was renting.
He was then found to be a heavy gambler who drove flashy cars and visited high-end retailers.
Sentencing the threesome at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday, Judge Branston criticised the offenders for their lack of empathy, shame or remorse.
Police walked upstairs to where Lina was standing in a doorway with six mobile phones behind her back
Lina was then arrested by officers at her home in Cambridgeshire and sentenced this week
He added that they were all using their victims for their own ‘selfish, greedy reasons’.
Lina, of Cambridge, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and acquiring and possessing criminal property. She was jailed for five years and eight months.
Chung Fu Wang, 41, of Dagenham, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and was sentenced to three years and nine months in prison.
Yuan Hang, 39, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to control prostitution for gain and possessing criminal property and was jailed for five years and eight months.
Kent Police first became aware of the gang’s criminality in 2019 following the discovery of two brothels in Gillingham and Maidstone that officers were later able to link.
