Thread: "london 'slaves' had been in political collective with captors, police say"

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    fucking hell, it's not clear whether they were 'slaves' or not, it is clear this was a fucking cult and these women were in a vulnerable position. what is it about your politics that means this is obscure to you?
    The whole facts are not out there yet - nothing to do with my politics - why are you so upset with me EM?

    IMHO nothing is clear about this -
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    The whole facts are not out there yet - nothing to do with my politics - why are you so upset with me EM?

    IMHO nothing is clear about this -
    i'm not "upset" with you, i just think the response from some - thankfully only very few - on here has been bizarre, as if the british state, media and met police are so concerned about the maoist threat (or just the left, lol) that they'd fabricate a story about a weird sect that disappeared in paranoid circumstances thirty years ago.

    if you think nothing is clear about this case, i certainly hope you think nothing is normal about it either. it's worrying if not.
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    My response was not about the Brit state fabricating a story but because not all the info has been released - this situation can occur in a lot of different scenarios not just within a political group - most commonly in the nuclear family the place where most child ,women and elder abuse takes place which is common

    we haven't heard yet from any of the people involved press so far is speculative
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    Sian Davies, Who Died From Mysterious Window Fall, 'Lived With Lambeth Hostage Suspects'
    The Huffington Post UK/PA | Posted: 26/11/2013 10:05 GMT | Updated: 26/11/2013 10:40 GMT
    A woman who died after falling from a window had been living with the London 'slavery' suspects, it has emerged.

    The cousin of Sian Davies said she had died after in 1997 after mysteriously falling out of a bathroom window in the house the group were living in in Herne Hill, south London.

    Ms Davies was kept in hospital for seven months after the fall, but her family claim they were not told.

    The Mirror is reporting that the death is being investigated by police, as they try to unravel what happened in the house run by Aravindan Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda in Brixton, where three women say they were kept as slaves.

    Police have confirmed that there are ongoing inquiries relating to a total of 13 addresses, all in London, linked to the couple, who ran a communist cult in the 1970s.

    Sian Davies had reportedly lived there for 20 years.

    Her cousin, Eleri Morgan, said Aravindan Balakrishnan was more of a "toothless old man" than a "charismatic" figure.

    She said Ms Davies wrote home talking of how she was looking after the "mothers of the world" but was not allowed to see her cousin.

    Her letters always spoke of "comrade Bala" - the name that Balakrishnan was referred to.

    Morgan met Balakrishnan at the inquest into her cousin's death. She told ITV News: "I had such a shock because I imagined somebody charismatic and there was this toothless old man - well looked old."

    A senior council source confirmed that Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda were arrested last week by police amid allegations that they held three women for more than 30 years. It is claimed they were leaders of an extremist Maoist collective.

    sian davies

    Davies died after falling from a window
    The alleged victims - a 30-year-old Briton, a 57-year-old Irishwoman and a 69-year-old Malaysian - are believed to have suffered years of "physical and mental abuse" at the hands of the pair.

    The youngest of the three alleged victims is said to have written letters to neighbour Marius Feneck, 26, describing her life as being "like a fly trapped in a spider's web".

    full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013...?utm_hp_ref=uk

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