Thursday, November 21, 2013

Three Women Rescued after 'Decades of Slavery' in South London Home


THE GUARDIAN: Two people arrested by police investigating slavery and domestic servitude

Three "highly traumatised" women have been rescued from a house in south London where they appear to have been held captive for three decades, Scotland Yard has said.

A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old British woman were all rescued from the residential address on Thursday morning by detectives from the Metropolitan police Human Trafficking Unit.

Two suspects – a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman – were arrested at the address under the investigation into slavery and domestic servitude, the force said in a statement. » | Josh Halliday | Thursday, November 21, 2013