Arrests as brothel raided in Welwyn Hatfield

A BROTHEL was raided and four people arrested as police targeted the vice trade in Welwyn Hatfield.

Officers stormed addresses in Salisbury Square, Old Hatfield, and Brocket Road and Thistle Grove, WGC, during an operation which ran between November 24 and Monday last week.

Two women, aged 34 and 36, and a 45-year-old man, all from WGC, were arrested on suspicion of money laundering and running a brothel.

A 47-year-old woman from London was arrested on suspicion of running a brothel.

The quartet were all released on bail, to return to Hatfield police station in February.