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The note was inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark’s Belfast store<\/p>
25 June 2014 Last updated at 12:46 ET<\/p>
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The customer said she found the SoS note inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark’s Belfast store<\/p>
The note was inside a pair of trousers bought in Primark’s Belfast store<\/p>
A shopper has claimed she found a “cry for help” note hidden inside a pair of trousers alleging slave labour conditions in a Chinese prison.<\/p>
The note, wrapped in a prison identity card, claimed inmates were forced to work 15 hours a day making clothes.<\/p>
Karen Wisínska said she bought the trousers in Primark’s Belfast store in June 2011 but had never worn them. She discovered the note just last week.<\/p>
A Primark spokesperson said the firm has begun an immediate investigation.<\/p>
The writer of the note claimed inmates were forced to work “like oxen” and were given food that would be considered unfit for animals.<\/p>
It is not yet known if the allegations made in the note are genuine.<\/p>
‘Shocked’<\/p>
Mrs Wisínska, who lives in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, bought the trousers during a shopping trip to Belfast three years ago, but had never worn them because when she took them home, she found the zip was broken.<\/p>
She put them into her wardrobe and did not take them out again until last week, when she was packing clothes for a holiday.<\/p>