A traveller has been warned he faces a "significant" prison sentence after being found guilty of modern day slavery offences.

Johnny Moloney had picked homeless alcoholic Cameraon Biggar off the streets of London with the promise of work and accommodation.

But after the Scotsman got into Moloney's car in 2004 in The Strand, he found he had been caught up in a "living nightmare".

During a week long trial at St Albans crown court the jury was told Mr Biggar who is now 43-years-old had been forced to carry out unpaid block paving and building work for Moloney.

Sometimes he would have to work a 14 hour day, seven days a week.

The jury heard he was taken to work in Ireland, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham and Norway and Sweden by Johnny Moloney.

Thirty-year-old Moloney aka Murphy pleaded not guilty to knowingly holding a person in slavery or servitude and knowingly requiring another person to perform forced labour between April 2010 and December 2014.

Prosecutor Peter Shaw said Mr Biggar had been kept in servitude and was required to perform forced labour from 2004, but the charges began in 2010 when an Act of Parliament came into effect.

During the trial Maloney's wife Sanon Loveridge 22 was found not guilty on the direction of the judge of the same two charges faced by her husband.

It was claimed by the prosecution she had required Mr Biggar him to look after her two children and walk one to school. She is also said to have got him to clean her car and caravan.

The victim made a 999 call on Christmas Day 2014 and the police arrived to find him in a campervan at the back of the house in Watford Road.

The couple were arrested on 11 March 2015. They made no comment to police interviews.

During his trial Johnny Moloney elected not to go to the witness box to give evidence to the jury.

The jury found him guilty of both offences he faced.

Judge Bright QC adjourned the sentencing until Friday of this week, warning Maloney that he is likely to face a lengthy period behind bars.