{ A couple accused of keeping three women as slaves in a London house for 30 years are of Indian and Tanzanian origin and two of the victims were part of a political “collective”, police said on Saturday.}<\/p>\n
The two older victims involved in Britain’s most notorious case of modern-day slavery are thought to have met the male suspect through a “shared political ideology” and began living with him as part of a collective, London’s Metropolitan Police said.<\/p>\n
The third victim, a 30-year-old woman, is believed to have spent her entire life in servitude in a case that has stunned Britain. Police commander Steve Rodhouse said the couple, both aged 67, were of Indian and Tanzanian origin and had been living in Britain since the 1960s.<\/p>\n
“We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a ‘collective’,” he told reporters.<\/p>\n
Police carried out house-to-house enquiries on Saturday, speaking to residents living near the house where the women were held in south London.<\/p>\n
The exact location has not been revealed but the police operation centred on a modern, low-rise block of flats in Peckford Place in Brixton, an area known for its vibrant nightlife and large Afro-Caribbean community.<\/p>\n
The victims are a 69-year-old Malaysian, a 57-year-old Irish woman and the 30-year-old Briton. They were freed on October 25 after one of them made secret telephone contact with a charity.<\/p>\n
Their alleged captors, who are suspected of immigration offences as well as involvement in forced labour, have been provisionally freed until January pending further investigations.<\/p>\n
The Citizen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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