Police announced yesterday that three "traumatised women" kept as slaves were freed after spending three decades imprisoned against their will in a city home.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland said the whole of the human trafficking unit - 37 officers - are now working on this investigation.
Specially-trained officers are working with the women to try to understand their lives over the last 30 years or more, he said.
DI Hyland said the women are in the care of a specialist non-governmental organisation.
"Whilst we do not believe that they have been subjected to sexual abuse, we know that there has been physical abuse, described as beatings.
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23 Nov 2013"However there is nothing to suggest that the suspects were violent to others outside of the address," he said.
DI Hyland said the police search of the address in south London took 12 hours, and said they seized 55 bags of evidence amounting to in excess of 2,500 exhibits.
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