BBC: Women held as slaves for 30 years were kept in "horrific conditions".....'Slave' women rescued

 

LONDON (AP) — Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a south London home, including one woman believed to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police announced Thursday.

London's Metropolitan Police spoke about the rescues after two people — a man and a woman, both 67 — were arrested early Thursday as part of an investigation into domestic servitude.

The investigation was launched after one of the captive women contacted a charity to say she was being held against her will and the charity then went to the police. Those freed "some weeks ago" are a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old British woman, police said.

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