Women Were 'Kept As Slaves For Over 30 Years'

[Del]

Two people have been arrested as part of an investigation into slavery and domestic servitude at a house in London sparked by a report on Sky News.

The inquiry was launched after one of three alleged victims told a charity she had been held against her will for more than 30 years in a house in Lambeth, south London.

She contacted the Freedom Charity after seeing its founder Aneeta Prem in a report last summer about forced marriages.

Scotland Yard said the charity, which advises and supports victims of forced marriages or honour-based violence, got in touch and helped with sensitive negotiations, which revealed the location of the house and led to the rescue of the three women.

Police believe the youngest of the alleged victims may have spent her entire live as a domestic slave.

Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland from the Metropolitan Police's human trafficking unit told a news conference at Scotland Yard that the force had "never seen anything of this magnitude".

Officers said the two suspects, a man and a woman, both aged 67 and not British, have been taken to a south London police station for questioning.

One of the three alleged victims is a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, the other a 57-year-old Irish woman and the third a 30-year-old Briton.

http://news.sky.com/story/1171815/women-were-kept-as-slaves-for-over-30-years

 

[BlueLlama]

And who says relationships dont last?


Nah seriously that is beyond f**ked up.

 

[steken1]

She contacted the Freedom Charity

Grass

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That's kinda mental. Just down the road from me too.

 

[Moomin]

A British woman, Malaysian woman and an Irish woman. The making of a cracking joke that.

 

[ToffeeMark]

The suspects, not british....

I think we knew that, keeping slaves is un-british and quite simply not cricket.

 

[del boy]

Anyone involved in human trafficking or slavery should be hung by the neck.

 

[steken1]

Anyone involved in human trafficking or slavery should be hung by the neck.

Wouldn't be quite as off putting if they where hung by the feet, really.

 

[Allezfan]

Wouldn't be quite as off putting if they where hung by the feet, really.

Nah, you'd still die just take longer.

 

[bluemangroup]

Nah, you'd still die just take longer.

How long is it till you're well hung?

 

[Kurt.]

I personally have nothing against woman....











Every home should have one.

 

[rascal]

The suspects, not british....

I think we knew that, keeping slaves is un-british and quite simply not cricket.

Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves

 

[Pat's Van]

A British woman, Malaysian woman and an Irish woman. The making of a cracking joke that.

it's also the makings of a harmonious and well integrated community

something a few posters on here should learn to accept

EDIT - not the slavery bit though, that's wrong very wrong

 

[davek]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25055337

Is this case of 'slavery' beginning to sound a bit flakey?

It's now 'complicated' according to the coppers, with the three able to come and go into the house they were held as 'slaves' in. .

I can see this one unraveling.

 

[roydo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-25055337

Is this case of 'slavery' beginning to sound a bit flakey?

It's now 'complicated' according to the coppers, with the three able to come and go into the house they were held as 'slaves' in. .

I can see this one unraveling.

It seems a bit odd to me as well. Like before today I had never heard of Freedom Charity, and after 30 years in captivity, they were the first people they called. Weird.