An Indian-origin man who was arrested for allegedly holding three women as slaves here for 30 years met his victims at a Marxist collective,according to media reports Sunday.
Scotland Yard on Saturday revealed the identity of the two suspects as an Indian-origin man and a Tanzanian-origin woman,both 67,who had met the women victims through a shared political ideology. The couple,believed to be married,were members of a Marxist-Communist group that lived together in London in the 1970s,The Sunday Times quoted sources as saying.
The couple were arrested earlier this week on charges of slavery and immigration offences after three women a Malaysian woman,69,an Irish woman,57,and a British woman,30 were freed by the police from a house in south London.
The women,who were said to be highly traumatised,were held against their will for decades. The suspects have been freed on bail.
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, Commander Steve Rodhouse of the Metropolitan police said here Sunday.
Also,reportedly,for over three decades social workers were aware of the dysfunctional family where three women were allegedly kept as slaves.