A SECOND man convicted of people trafficking in Oxford can today be named as Graham Cochrane from Bicester.

Reporting restrictions prevented the Oxford Mail from naming the 49-year-old during a two-week trial at Oxford Crown Court, which ended last week.

Cochrane’s anonymity had been protected because he was due to stand trial for unrelated charges of arson next year.

But at Oxford Crown Court yesterday, the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the charges in light of the more serious convictions for controlling prostitutes.

Cochrane, jurors heard, joined 42-year-old Anastassios Papas, who is currently on the run, in managing the ‘Fun Girls in Oxford’ escort agency, which offered sex for money in hotels and clients’ homes.

Jurors convicted Cochrane of one charge of conspiracy to traffic women within the UK for sexual exploitation and two charges of trafficking women into the UK for sexual exploitation.

He was cleared of trafficking women within the UK.

Papas, of Iffley Road, East Oxford, was convicted of two charges of trafficking women within the UK for sexual exploitation, one charge of conspiracy to traffic women within the UK for sexual exploitation and controlling prostitution for gain and converting £67,075 of criminal property.

During the trial, the prosecution said Cochrane’s involvement began in October 2009.

Prosecutor Neil Moore said: “He already worked as a driver and also arranged for two girls to come over from Romania, and indeed those two girls lived with him until they went home in December 2009.”

Mr Moore said Cochrane planned to open his own agency called ‘Hot Fun Girls in Oxford’ and after Papas was arrested “he arranged for the two Romanian girls to come back and they were found in his flat in February”.

“He also arranged for a third girl to come over from Romania and work in Newbury.”

Jurors heard the prostitutes would charge up to £130 an hour, of which half would be kept by Papas, and drivers would get £20.

One of the women told the trial she could earn up to £5,000 in a good month.

Prosecuting, Jonathan Stone said Cochrane, of Corncrake Way, faced three counts of arson relating to incidents in Bicester in June 2009 , but that in light of the conviction for trafficking and the likely sentence the Crown took the view it was not in the public interest to hold an trial.

Cochrane was remanded in custody to be sentenced in January, with the judge telling him to expect a “substantial” jail term.