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Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Our duty to refugee women is to care - not lock them up and treat them like criminals
1EmailMirror columnist Ros Wynne-Jones joins former child detainee and campaigner Meltem Avcil on an emotional return to the Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre
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Sunday, 12 January 2014
Women pay price of Pensions Bill
Battle: Campaigner Cari Rikby
Tuesday will see the second reading of the Pensions Bill in the House of Lords.
It will adversely affect 70,000 women
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Young women tried to help gang of robbers clean £38k using nail varnish
"Flatmates Nakitta Morrison and Holly Davidson, both 19, were became involved in the crime after Morrison's boyfriend Marlon Benjamin, to whom she was "in thrall" turned up at their flat with the money. " itemprop
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Slavery case: man arrested on suspicion of holding three women pictured for the first time
By Alice Philipson5:18PM GMT 26 Nov 2013Follow
The first pictures of a man arrested as part of a slavery investigation in South London have emerged.
Aravindan Balakrishnan in 1997 (ITV NEWS)
Comrade Bala, whose real name is Aravindan Balakrishnan, can be seen wearing a brown jacket and blue trousers as he attends the inquest into the death of commune member Sian Davies in 1997.
It comes as a Malaysian family came forward to claim that a woman allegedly held as a slave for 30 years is a relation who disappeared virtually without trace after joining a Maoist sect.
Kamar Mautum, a retired teacher, said she believed her 69-year-old sister, Aishah, was one of the women who had allegedly been held captive by the leaders of a 1970s Communist collective for 30 years.
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Aishah had studied at one of Malaysia’s most elite schools, eventually winning a Commonwealth scholarship to study surveying in London.
A still from the ITV video shows Aravindan Balakrishnan being followed by two women (ITV NEWS)
She moved to Britain in 1968 with her fiancé and dreamed of balancing an exciting career with a family, but was soon involved in extremist politics, eventually giving up everything to follow a Maoist doctrine.
She allegedly fell under the spell of Balakrishnan and his partner Chanda, who were last week arrested on suspicion of holding three women against their will for more than three decades in south London.
Speaking from her home near Kuala Lumpur, Kamar said their mother’s dying wish had been to know what had happened to her daughter, who never returned.
Kamar told The Daily Telegraph: “I have felt so choked without her for years and years. She was so talented, she was the apple of my mother’s eye. She asked for her on her death bed.” She added: “When my mother died she
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Monday, 25 November 2013
Three women slaves: two suspected of slavery were previously arrested in 1970s
Police say they are seeking to understand the "invisible handcuffs" that kept three women bound in slavery and domestic servitude for three decades in a house in Lambeth By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent6:58PM GMT 22 Nov 2013Follow
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Two people suspected of enslaving three women for more than 30-years have been on the radar of the authorities since the 1970s, it was revealed on Friday.
The man and woman, who are understood to be illegal immigrants, were first arrested by the Metropolitan Police almost 40-years ago.
They were detained on Thursday morning as part of an investigation into slavery but were bailed to a date in January after several hours of questioning.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he regarded the case as “utterly appalling”.
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Police revealed further details on Friday of the shocking conditions in which their three alleged victims were kept.
The women, a 69-year-old from Malaysia, a 57-year-old from Ireland and 30-year-old Briton, were allegedly subjected to decades of physical abuse and beatings after being brainwashed by their captors.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland of the Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit said: “Whilst we do not believe that they have been subjected to sexual abuse, we know that there has been physical abuse, described as beatings - however there is nothing to suggest that the suspects were violent towards others outside of the address.”
The youngest of the women has spent her entire life in the house, but is understood to have had some form of basic education.
The three women were only allowed to leave their house under carefully controlled circumstances and were said to be terrified of their captors.
But detectives explained that far from living in isolation, the group were probably known to the authorities including social services.
It has also been reported that one of the women was denied medical attention after suffering a stroke while inside the house.
Commander Steve Rodhouse from the Metropolitan Police said: “We believe at this stage to the outside world this may have appeared to be a 'normal' family.
“This does mean that over the course of many decades the people at the heart of this investigation and their victims will probably have come into contact with public services, including our own, that is something we must examine fully, and it is too early to provide details.”
He added: “What I can say with some certainty is that the two suspects in the case were arrested by the Metropolitan Police in the 1970s , some considerable time ago.”
A spokesman for Lambeth Council refused to discuss whether social services had any contact with the group.
Police were tipped off about the case by the Freedom charity when the 57-year-old women plucked up the courage to report her ordeal after watching a news report about modern slavery.
Specially trained charity workers spent several days winning her trust before she and the younger woman escaped on October 25 to a pre-arranged location where they were met by waiting police officers.
Detectives then returned to the house and removed the eldest woman to safety.
Almost a month went by before the two alleged captors were arrested by officers from the Met’s Human Trafficking Unit.
On Friday officers who have spent years investigating the growing scandal of slavery and domestic servitude admitted that this case was completely “unique” in their experience.
Mr Rodhouse said what his officers had uncovered was a “complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control over many years”.
He said to many in the outside world the group may have appeared to be an ordinary family in an ordinary house which might explain why it went under the radar for so long.
Describing the circumstances in which the three alleged victims were held, Mr Rodhouse said: “It is not as brutally obvious as women being physically restrained inside an address and not being allowed to leave.”
DI Hyland said 37 officers were working on the case and had removed 55 bags of evidence and 12,500 exhibits from the “ordinary” looking house.
Police also confirmed that they had been in contact with officials in Malaysia and Ireland.
DI Hyland said: “We are unpicking a story that spans at least 30 years of these women's lives, and all of this requires police activity to turn that into evidence.”
The two people arrested are understood to be of Asian origin and have also been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences.
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Women held as 'slaves' had been part of a 'collective', police reveal
Scotland Yard says two victims originally met alleged captors through a "shared political ideology" and youngest captive held only a birth certificate, and no other papers
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Friday, 22 November 2013
London 'slaves' suspects were arrested in the 1970s as police reveal women were 'beaten'
22 Nov 2013 13:22The man and woman, both 67, have been bailed as Scotland Yard investigate the discovery of three women held captive in a house in Lambeth for more than 30 years
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Latest: London 'slave' suspects arrested in 1970s as police reveal women were 'beaten'
22 Nov 2013 14:19All the news, pictures and video after police free three women who were held against their will in a south London home for decades
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Women kept as slaves in London are 'traumatised'
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland says he has "never seen anything of this magnitude before" as police rescue three women alleged to have been held against their will in a south London house 4:51PM GMT 21 Nov 2013
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Three "traumatised women" kept as slaves have been freed after spending three decades imprisoned against their will in a city home, police said.
A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irishwoman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are believed to have walked to their freedom from a property in south London after media coverage on forced marriages gave them the courage to contact a support charity.
Two people in their 60s have been arrested at the home this morning as part of the investigation into slavery and domestic servitude, Scotland Yard confirmed.
It followed a call to police last month, from a charity on behalf of one of the alleged captives, who said she had been held captive for more than 30 years.
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18 Oct 2012Below is a clip of the television documentary on forced marriages relating to the work of Freedom Charity which police said was the catalyst that prompted one of the victims to call for help and led to their rescue.
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Three women 'held captive for 30 years' in London: as it happened
By Matthew Sparkes6:23PM GMT 21 Nov 2013Follow
• Police rescue three 'traumatised' women
• Two people aged 67 arrested
• House is somewhere in Lambeth, south London
• Police have 'never seen anything of this magnitude'
18.23 We're closing this live blog down now. For the latest news on the south London slavery case throughout the evening read our full story.
18.12 The Met Police have uploaded audio of Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland talking about the arrests in South London today:
17.39 Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland tells the BBC that interviews with the two suspects are going on now. Both are being held at a south London police station and their house was searched this morning. Interviews will continue into the evening.
17:24 More from Aneeta Prem of Freedom Charity, who's speaking to Sky News about the released captives:
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Charity head: London slave women rescue 'miraculous'
Aneeta Prem says that when Freedom Charity was contacted for help by one of the victims she realised was "a one-chance call to make a difference". 6:41PM GMT 21 Nov 2013
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Three "traumatised women" were kept as slaves have been freed after spending three decades imprisoned against their will in a city home, police said.
A 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irishwoman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman are believed to have walked to their freedom from a property in south London after media coverage on forced marriages gave them the courage to contact a support charity.
Two people in their 60s have been arrested at the home this morning as part of the investigation into slavery and domestic servitude, Scotland Yard said.
It followed a call to police last month, from a charity on behalf of one of the alleged captives, who said she had been held captive for more than 30 years.
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18 Oct 2012Freedom Charity, which aims to advise and support victims of forced marriages or honour-based violence, got in touch after they received a call following television coverage on forced marriages.
Aneeta Prem, Freedom Charity founder, said the women were very distressed when they were rescued but also very relieved to be free.
She said "When they contacted the charity it was very clear it was a once chance call to make a difference. They basically told us they were being held and they needed support to come out of a very difficult situation."
She added that the charity felt "very humbled" that they were able to assist in "something so miraculous".
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Three women 'held as slaves' in south London
Three "highly traumatised" women are alleged to have been held against their will for 30 years - with one born in captivity By Martin Evans, Crime Correspondent9:28AM GMT 22 Nov 2013Follow
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A woman who was born into captivity and allowed no contact with the outside world is one of three 'slaves’ who have been rescued after being kept against their will in a south London house for 30 years, the police revealed on Thursday.
A man and a woman, both aged 67, were arrested after officers from Scotland Yard were alerted to the plight of the three women last month.
The pair, who have not been named by police, were later “bailed until a date in January pending further enquiries”, Scotland Yard said in a statement in the early hours of Friday morning.
Detectives from the human trafficking unit said it was the worst case of modern slavery they had ever come across in Britain.
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22 Aug 2013The youngest of the alleged victims, who is now 30, is thought to have spent her entire life in servitude and is thought to have been born in captivity.
The woman, who police said had no normal contact with the outside world, was rescued alongside a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old from Malaysia. Their alleged captors are not British, the police confirmed, but provided no further details about their nationality.
The three 'slaves’ were never allowed outside unaccompanied and spent the vast majority of their lives confined to the property in Lambeth, south London, described by police as an “ordinary house in an ordinary street”.
The women’s ordeal finally came to an end last month when the 57-year-old contacted a charity after watching a television programme about domestic slavery.
She told charity workers that she had been held against her will in a house in Lambeth, south London for more than 30 years.
Since their release the three women have thanked the founder of the charity which helped rescue them for "saving their lives".
Police were alerted and after using specially trained officers to interview the women over the telephone, two women escaped and met the authorities at an agreed location nearby on October 25. The third - the Malaysian woman - was later rescued from the house.
On Thursday after weeks of careful investigation police moved in and arrested two people, who were described as the “heads of the family”, suggesting a criminal network would be involved. The reason for the near month delay between rescuing the women and making the arrests was unclear.
The pair were questioned at a south London police station on Thursday, but it is not clear whether there will be further arrests in connection with the case.
Police are searching other possible linked addresses for bodies amid fears it is part of a wider abduction ring and that others may have been held but died in captivity, reports suggested.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland of the Met’s human trafficking unit said: “We’ve established that all three women were held in this situation for at least 30 years.
“Their lives were greatly controlled and for much of it they would be kept in the premises.”
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland addresses the media outside New Scotland Yard
Det Insp Hyland said they were still working to establish if the 30-year-old woman had been born in the house but he said the indications were that she had spent her entire life there.
Asked if she had ever attended school he said: “The 30-year-old had no contact with the outside world that one would see as normal.”
Det Insp Hyland went on: “The human trafficking unit of the Metropolitan Police deals with many cases of servitude and forced labour. We’ve seen some cases where people have been held for up to 10 years but we’ve never seen anything of this magnitude before."
He added: “It’s part of our investigation - who had any freedom, what sort of freedom, under what conditions that freedom was allowed.”
Police are investigating the possibility that the victims may have been related in some way, but given their different nationalities that seems unlikely.
Police have also said there have been no allegations made of sexual abuse made by the victims.
Freedom, a charity which offers advice and support to victims of forced marriages, contacted police after one of the women got in touch last month.
Aneeta Prem, the founder of the charity, said the alleged victims were extremely vulnerable, but had been able to walk out of the house on their own where they were met by police.
She added: “I think it’s a real rarity, I certainly haven’t heard of anything like this before. I’ve heard of stories abroad but not in the centre of London.”
Talking on ITV's Daybreak this morning she added: "They're quite traumatised ... but they're very relieved to be out.
"When I met them, it was a very humbling experience. They all threw their arms around me, and apart from crying enormously, they thanked the charity for the work Freedom had done in saving their lives."
She said: "If you have spent your entire life in captivity and know nothing different, then even the smallest freedoms, the smallest things, you have no knowledge of.
"It's going to be a difficult process. Bear in mind these ladies have left with absolutely nothing at all. The charity is going to have to try and help and support them through this difficulty journey."
The women told her that they felt that they could trust her as they had seen her on TV throughout the summer as she campaigned against forced marraiges and young girls going missing.
After a "traumatic and very difficult" first call to Freedom staff, Ms Prem arranged a single point of contact for the women and began "secret negotiations" to bring them out.
She said: "We did it in a very slow way to gain their trust, because after 30 years of people being held in very difficult circumstances, one of the things we didn't want to do was to add any more trauma."
The case has led to comparisons with that of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who kept his daughter confined to the cellar of his home for 24 years.
In May this year three women were freed from a house in Cleveland, Ohio after being kidnapped and held against their will for more than a decade.
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, expressed her shock at the case.
A spokesman said: “The home secretary is shocked by this appalling case and while the police need to get to the bottom of exactly what happened here, the home secretary has made clear her determination to tackle the scourge of modern slavery.”
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said: “If the allegations are true that someone’s been kept against their will or been abused for 30 years that’s a horrendous thing and we’re all shocked by that.”
Frank Field MP, chairman of the modern slavery bill evidence review and vice-chairman of the human trafficking foundation, described the victims as “brave”.
He said: “People need to understand that these aren’t one-off cases - modern slavery is alive and well in Britain, and needs to be stopped.
“We need police forces to be working much more closely with local non-government organisations, such as Freedom Charity, to help raise awareness and spot the signs of this evil, which is taking place right under our noses. It was incredibly brave for one of the victims to call for help - much more needs to be done to help victims come forward.”
Earlier this year the Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) - a joint operation by the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - revealed it helped in 1,485 cases of possible forced marriage in 2012, involving 60 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and North America.
The statistics for last year show that of the 744 cases where the age was known, more than 600 involved people under the age of 26.
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Slave women victims 'relieved' to be free, says Freedom Charity founder Aneeta Prem
Founder of Freedom Charity Aneeta Prem says the three rescued alleged slavery victims are "quite traumatised" but "very relieved to be out", adding that she thinks it is going to be "a very long journey" for the three women 11:21AM GMT 22 Nov 2013
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Three women alleged to have been held as slaves for 30 years have thanked the founder of the charity which helped rescue them for "saving their lives".
Aneeta Prem, founder of the Freedom Charity, told ITV's Daybreak programme she met the three women yesterday.
She said: "They're quite traumatised ... but they're very relieved to be out.
"When I met them, it was a very humbling experience. They all threw their arms around me, and apart from crying enormously, they thanked the charity for the work Freedom had done in saving their lives."
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21 Nov 2013The women were rescued from a house in Lambeth in south London last month after one of them saw Ms Prem on TV and contacted her charity for help.
Ms Prem told Daybreak that it would be "a very long journey" to rehabilitate the women, one of whom is believed to have been imprisoned for her entire life.
She said: "If you have spent your entire life in captivity and know nothing different, then even the smallest freedoms, the smallest things, you have no knowledge of.
"It's going to be a difficult process. Bear in mind these ladies have left with absolutely nothing at all. The charity is going to have to try and help and support them through this difficulty journey."
Scotland Yard confirmed a couple in their 60s were arrested at the house and bailed last night as part of an investigation into slavery and domestic servitude.
The victims - a 30-year-old British woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian woman - are being looked after in a safe location.
The Irish woman contacted Freedom on October 18 to say she had been held against her will for more than 30 years, and that two others were held with her.
She and the British woman met charity workers and police on October 25 before returning to the address and rescuing the Malaysian woman.
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Blokes already dominate the other 364 days of the year - but women SHOULD support International Men's Day
19 Nov 2013 09:00Because it just might prompt men to speak out on subjects like sex trafficking, slut-shaming, domestic abuse, and religious persecution
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Duchess of Cornwall meets Indian women supporting their families
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