A STUDENT will answer people-trafficking charges next month.

Cherice McIntosh, of Eresby Drive, Beckenham, is one of five people charged with human trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation, false imprisonment and controlling prostitution for gain.

The 20-year-old was arrested after raids on premises in Surrey, Kent and London.

Following a preliminary hearing at Guildford Crown Court on September 20, McIntosh was bailed to return on October 20.

Under the terms of her bail, McIntosh must live and sleep at her address and report to Bromley police station on Mondays and Fridays.

She must also not contact witnesses, must surrender her passport and not apply for travel documents. Four others have also been charged with the offences.

They are Ian Lindsey, aged 43, a company director; unemployed 24-year-old Maxine Soper; Daniel Ghitulan, aged 18, an unemployed Romanian citizen, all from Tadworth, Surrey, and Vincent Calleja, aged 44, a property developer from Lower Kingswood, Surrey.