A 24-YEAR-OLD man who was involved in trafficking vulnerable people from his native Poland to Bradford has been told he will be sent to prison.

David Zielinski was remanded into custody to await his fate tomorrow after a jury at Bradford Crown Court this afternoon found him guilty of offences under the Modern Slavery Act.

Former Bradford man Zielinski, who had been living in Enfield, London, had denied all the charges, but the jury took a little more than an hour to convict him.

At the start of his trial last month prosecutor Chris Smith told the jury that the case was all about a group of criminals exploiting deep-seated human needs.

"Vulnerable people who were sold a dream, but who found themselves living a nightmare; trafficked into this country and forced to live and work in very poor conditions whilst the money they earned was siphoned off by a greedy and ruthless gang," he told the jury.

Mr Smith described it as a family business "Zielinski and Sons" and Judge Jonathan Rose indicated that on the evidence he had heard the defendant's father Edward was the ringleader.

"The prosecution has never asserted that you were the ringleader of this enterprise and when I sentence you tomorrow it will not be on the basis that you were the ringleader," the judge told Zielinski via an interpreter.

"But you were certainly substantially involved in the wicked use of human life."

The judge said the jury had decided that Zielinski was "part and parcel" of a criminal conspiracy to bring Polish men, and at least one woman, who had fallen on hard times to this country and then to house them here and work them here for the benefit of his family.

He said for that offending there would be a prison sentence, but he would need assistance from counsel in deciding the length of that sentence.

Prosecution barrister Adam Birkby indicated that victim personal statements would be provided to the judge for the sentence hearing tomorrow morning.

During his evidence to the jury one of the men who were trafficked described how had worked at a recycling plant in Bradford but his money was taken from him on pay day.

Zielinski was found guilty on two charges of arranging or facilitating the travel of another for exploitation and an offence of conspiracy to require another to perform forced or compulsory labour.

He was cleared on a third allegation of people trafficking.