UK police arrest couple suspected of holding three women captive for 30 years
British police have arrested a couple on suspicion of holding three
"extremely traumatized" women captive for more than 30 years, Scotland
Yard announced Thursday.
One of the women -- a
30-year-old Briton -- "appears to have been in servitude for her entire
life," Metropolitan Police Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland said. She
and the other two women, a 57-year-old from Ireland and a 69-year-old
from Malaysia, have been taken to a place of safety and are being cared
for by a charity, police said.
The man and woman
arrested are both 67, police said. They were taken into custody at their
home in the south London borough of Lambeth and were being held as part
of an investigation into slavery and domestic servitude, police said.
Their names were not released, and police said only that they are not British nationals. They were later released on bail.
Hyland said it was an unprecedented case for the Met's Human Trafficking Unit.
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