NHS worker finds 'Chinese prisoner's ID' sewn into the lining of coat
NHS worker finds ‘Chinese prisoner’s ID’ sewn into the lining of £49.99 coat she bought from My Shoe Store online and fears it could be ‘a call for help’
- The 24-year-old bought the garment off an online firm called My Shoe Store
- It was from Brave Soul, a brand of Whispering Smith which outsources to China
- In 2015, a Primark shopper found a distressing letter inside a pair of cotton socks
An NHS worker has found a ‘Chinese prisoner’s ID’ sewn into the lining of a coat she bought online and fears it could be ‘a call for help’.
The 24-year-old purchased the garment for £49.99 off an online firm called My Shoe Store.
The coat was from Brave Soul, a core brand of UK based Whispering Smith which outsources to China for cheap labour.
An NHS worker has found a ‘Chinese prisoner’s ID’ (pictured) sewn into the lining of a coat she bought online and fears it could be ‘a call for help’
The woman, from Norwich, said: ‘This could be a call for help by a slave labourer.’
‘I work in the NHS and I do care that people are having the best kind of life,’ she told the Mirror.
An Amnesty International spokesman said: ‘Companies have a responsibility to respect human rights during their operations in China and anywhere else in the world.
‘Key to this is engaging in human rights due diligence to prevent the risk of negatively impacting people’s rights through their work, business relationships and within their value chains.
‘We would also urge the UK government to considering making this due diligence mandatory for national companies operating abroad.’
MailOnline has approached Whispering Smith for comment.
The coat (pictured) was from Brave Soul, a core brand of UK based Whispering Smith which outsources to China for cheap labour
In 2015, a Primark shopper found a distressing letter inside a pair of socks which claimed to be from a Chinese torture victim.
Shahkiel Akbar discovered the note hidden in the black cotton-rich socks which he bought from the budget chain’s store in the Metrocentre, Newcastle.
When he translated the note into English, Mr Akbar found what appeared to be a desperate cry for help from a man who claims to have been tortured after being framed for blackmail and fraud.
After finding the letter, Mr Akbar, 24, took it to his local Chinese takeaway to see if staff could translate it for him. When the owner said he was Korean and could not read Chinese, Mr Akbar used an app on the phone to translate the words into English.
In 2015, a Primark shopper found a distressing letter inside a pair of socks which claimed to be from a Chinese torture victim (pictured)
The letter purported to be from a man called Ding Tingkun from Anhui province.
The letter read: ‘I was falsely accused and set up for fraud and blackmail by and illegally sentenced on June 29, 2014, by Lingbi County People’s Court for three years in jail.
‘At present I am forcefully detained at Lingbi County detention centre. My body and mind have been subjected to extreme torture and damage!
‘Whoever sees this letter, please give it to national government leader President Xi Jingping, Premier Li Keqiang or expose this through a journalist or media!’
He also added: ‘My wife and I have both been made paralysed.’
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