Two of the three women found last month in an alleged slavery case in London met the man who has been arrested via a “collective”, police say.
Officers said a couple arrested in the case came to the UK from India and Tanzania in the 1960s. They said a 30-year-old woman also found has a birth certificate but no other official papers.Police are making house-to-house inquiries in the Lambeth area as part of the investigation. Inquiries are thought to be being carried out in the Peckford Place area of the SW9 postcode. The alleged victims – a 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman – are now in the care of a specialist non-governmental organisation after they were rescued from what police said was a “residential address” last month.’Shared political ideology’ The case came to light after the Irish woman rang the Freedom Charity to say she had been held against her will. A couple, both aged 67 and thought to be married, were arrested on Thursday. Police have not yet revealed what they have been arrested on suspicion of. In a statement, Commander Steve Rodhouse of the Metropolitan Police, said: “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’.” BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said police were trying to work out why the women continued to live in the house for 30 years when this “collective” came to an end. – BBC News
