These are some of the most serious, high profile and prolific offenders who were jailed in the final month of 2022.
All information comes directly from Sussex Police.
![A Worthing landlady has been jailed for crimes against a vulnerable woman described by a detective inspector as ‘truly insidious and pernicious’. Sussex Police said Farzana Kausar, 58, held a vulnerable 62-year-old woman in domestic servitude for seven years – taking control of her finances, cutting her off from her family and forcing her to cook, clean and care for her children. On December 21, Kausar, of Selden Road in Worthing, was jailed for six years and eight months having been convicted of keeping a person in slavery and attempting to pervert the course of justice, police said. Kausar ‘gradually trapped her victim’ over a period of 16 years through a ‘campaign of physical and psychological abuse’, police said. She would move her between properties in Sussex and London, forcing her to look after her young children, cook for the family, clean their home and complete other household chores. Sussex Police said the force was alerted in May 2019, when a nanny who had been employed to support Kausar’s family noticed one of the helpers was treated differently. She was subjected to abuse, seemed to be carrying out most of the household chores and appeared to be living at the address. She informed Adult Social Services, who reported it to Sussex Police. Officers visited the address and found all of the victim’s belongings were in black bin bags, while she was forced to sleep in the children’s bedroom. She had no access to her ID documents, passport or bank cards. These were found in a locked room, along with financial documents made out in her name related to addresses to which she had no connection. Police said Kausar was arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences and assault and released on conditional bail while the enquiry continued.](https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOjk4Zjg0Mjk2LTU5MjUtNDhjYS04OTBmLTFlZWI5Mjc0MTU3NjpiNGRjZDU4Ni0wY2RmLTQ3MDktOTNhYS01ZDRkMTM4NGM2N2Y=.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
9. Locked up in Sussex: These are some of the criminals jailed in December
A Worthing landlady has been jailed for crimes against a vulnerable woman described by a detective inspector as ‘truly insidious and pernicious’. Sussex Police said Farzana Kausar, 58, held a vulnerable 62-year-old woman in domestic servitude for seven years – taking control of her finances, cutting her off from her family and forcing her to cook, clean and care for her children. On December 21, Kausar, of Selden Road in Worthing, was jailed for six years and eight months having been convicted of keeping a person in slavery and attempting to pervert the course of justice, police said. Kausar ‘gradually trapped her victim’ over a period of 16 years through a ‘campaign of physical and psychological abuse’, police said. She would move her between properties in Sussex and London, forcing her to look after her young children, cook for the family, clean their home and complete other household chores. Sussex Police said the force was alerted in May 2019, when a nanny who had been employed to support Kausar’s family noticed one of the helpers was treated differently. She was subjected to abuse, seemed to be carrying out most of the household chores and appeared to be living at the address. She informed Adult Social Services, who reported it to Sussex Police. Officers visited the address and found all of the victim’s belongings were in black bin bags, while she was forced to sleep in the children’s bedroom. She had no access to her ID documents, passport or bank cards. These were found in a locked room, along with financial documents made out in her name related to addresses to which she had no connection. Police said Kausar was arrested on suspicion of modern slavery offences and assault and released on conditional bail while the enquiry continued. Photo: Sussex Police