Two freed on bail in British ‘30-year slavery’ case
23 Nov 2013 11:53 PM GMT
<span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">British police said on Friday they had released on bail two people who were arrested after three women allegedly spent 30 years as slaves in a house in London.
The man and the woman, both aged 67 and neither of whom are <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">British nationals, were ‘bailed until a date in January pending further enquiries’, <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Scotland Yard said in a statement.
The pair were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of being involved in forced labour and domestic servitude, police said.
They have not been named. A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">a 30-year-old Briton who had apparently spent her entire life in servitude were rescued last month. The Irish woman called a charity having seen a programme about domestic slavery on television.
Police worked with the charity and the three women were rescued on 25 October.
The two suspects were then arrested on Thursday ‘as soon as officers had established <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the facts and were satisfied the victims were aware of police intentions’.
The man and the woman, both aged 67 and neither of whom are <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">British nationals, were ‘bailed until a date in January pending further enquiries’, <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Scotland Yard said in a statement.
The pair were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of being involved in forced labour and domestic servitude, police said.
They have not been named. A 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">a 30-year-old Briton who had apparently spent her entire life in servitude were rescued last month. The Irish woman called a charity having seen a programme about domestic slavery on television.
Police worked with the charity and the three women were rescued on 25 October.
The two suspects were then arrested on Thursday ‘as soon as officers had established <span style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the facts and were satisfied the victims were aware of police intentions’.
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