GUILTY UK - Women Were 'Kept As Slaves For Over 30 Years

[matou]

"Somehow that collective came to an end and how the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects.

"How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims' lives.

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[zwiebel]

I was writing a post on another thread and just caught something on the radio about Tanzania etc. I think they said.......

Its on again:

collective.
Presenter doesn't like word collective. Doesn't describe.
Couple moved to England in 60s. why/how/when it changed from collective?
Neighbours: Police high presence, knocking on doors. Neighbours baffled

Baffled neighours knew nothing.

"No one ever comes out, we hardly ever see them. Once in a blue moon. I saw a woman in a wheelchair about three weeks ago, being pushed. It's really nice here, so it's really shocking."

Charity has had huge number of calls since, some very distressing and had to be passed to police.

House is in Peckford Brixton? ( that's me not hearing properly and is not right, I think)
Searches all concentrated there.

 

[zwiebel]

It is Peckford Place. Never heard of it.

This is not an expensive area for London, I think, looking at the pic. Maybe council or housing association homes? Far from being rich, I think this couple may have been living on disability benefits. If their captives were claiming benefits too, there could have been a financial motive for keeping them captive. Not great amounts, but adding up, year on year.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...on-near-where-women-were-rescued-8959134.html

 

[zwiebel]

Peckford Place. Looks like a low-level apartment block, with ground floor residents having a small yard and a communal grassy area.

 

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2013/11/23/21289401.html

"Marius Feneck, who lived two floors above the group, said the women did seem scared.

"They were quiet people but some people you just don't trust. They looked crazy," he told reporters.

The publicity surrounding the case has prompted a fivefold increase in the number of calls to the charity that first alerted police to the women."

 

[SouthAussie]

I'm guessing the judge thinks there is no possibility the suspects will flee as they've been given bail. Either because they have so many assets/links in London, or their own country is too dangerous to return to? Somalia? Afghanistan? Iraq or Iran?

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/524201/20131121/london-three-women-slaves-30-years-lambeth.htm

They have surrendered their passports apparently ... an attempt to keep them in the country.

The suspects have been freed on bail but have surrendered their passports to authorities.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/uk-police-women-slaves-simple-terms-20981912

They have since been released on bail to a date in January.

http://www.london24.com/news/crime/...iscussing_10_000_contract_for_story_1_3033971

 

[EmmaliLucia]

I don't believe that monsters who lock women up for thirty years should be allowed to just pay a fee to get out of being locked up, I don't care if they won't run. It's not fair to their victims.

 

[MsAnais]

I don't believe that monsters who lock women up for thirty years should be allowed to just pay a fee to get out of being locked up, I don't care if they won't run. It's not fair to their victims.

I completely agree! Apart from the ethics of releasing them, it actually reinforces to those poor women that the 'captors' are omnipotent - above even the law! (which is what they would have been conditioned to believe). Makes me furious!!!:tantrum:

 

[MsAnais]

Interesting article here about the neighbour's interaction with the 30 year old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-photographs-neighbour-obsessed-with.html

 

[SouthAussie]

Interesting article here about the neighbour's interaction with the 30 year old:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ters-photographs-neighbour-obsessed-with.html

I wonder if the man who is 'telling all' about the love letters and photos is the same person that this article is speaking about.

A resident on the street at the centre of a police investigation into allegations of slavery in south London was overheard negotiating with the media a contract for his story worth £10,000, it has been reported.

http://www.london24.com/news/crime/...iscussing_10_000_contract_for_story_1_3033971

 

[MsAnais]

I wonder if the man who is 'telling all' about the love letters and photos is the same person that this article is speaking about.



http://www.london24.com/news/crime/...iscussing_10_000_contract_for_story_1_3033971

Hmmmm......good point!

I seriously hope that people wouldn't try to profit off these women's pain!
But that article about the 30 year old was certainly sensationalist - and kind of salacious. It did make me feel uncomfortable. Wouldn't surprise me if he did sell his story :facepalm:

 

[Perodicticus potto]

I don't believe that monsters who lock women up for thirty years should be allowed to just pay a fee to get out of being locked up, I don't care if they won't run. It's not fair to their victims.

I hope some serious measures are being taken to stop them contacting the women.

 

[Project35]

I wonder if the women are missing their captors and want to make sure they are ok? After all the mental abuse. I wouldnt be surprised if they suffered stockholm syndrome.

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[zwiebel]

It was interesting about the 'left wing' collective etc.

I spent hours looking for Brixton arrests in the 1970s and turned up nothing that could mean anything. But there was a lot going on at that time with left wing movements, especially the black power movement (Related to US black panther movement). I think the headquarters were in Shakespeare RD, Kennington. Really close. There were marches and run-ins with police, and in 72 there were for arrests of people at The Oval station that have gone down in history.

There was also a lot of fuss about the Unification Church (aka Moonies) at the time, though I don't know that there was anything specific happening in Brixton.

 

[dotr]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/44...-Prisoner-wrote-letter-of-appeal-to-neighbour


"Today we exclusively publish her emotional letter sent from captivity which reveals her fears and fragile mental state as she tried to cope with her lifelong ordeal. The 30-year-old woman, one of three rescued from a London maisonette, told neighbour Marius Feneck, 26, she could not flee because the windows and doors were locked.

Although Marius has a partner and two children, she became infatuated with him and saw him as her saviour.

She said that she arrived in Britain as a baby and the couple who kept her captive, a Tanzanian and an Indian, viewed her as their daughter but she insisted they were not her parents.
"
The woman implores Marius: “Do not try to do anything for me. I want you to know the truth. These monsters are absolutely evil and racist.

 

[dotr]

http://www.millenniumpost.in/NewsContent.aspx?NID=44883

"Indian-origin ‘slave owner’ in UK a Marxist-Communist:"

 

[Elainera]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/44...-Prisoner-wrote-letter-of-appeal-to-neighbour

"Today we exclusively publish her emotional letter sent from captivity which reveals her fears and fragile mental state as she tried to cope with her lifelong ordeal. The 30-year-old woman, one of three rescued from a London maisonette, told neighbour Marius Feneck, 26, she could not flee because the windows and doors were locked.

Although Marius has a partner and two children, she became infatuated with him and saw him as her saviour.

She said that she arrived in Britain as a baby and the couple who kept her captive, a Tanzanian and an Indian, viewed her as their daughter but she insisted they were not her parents.
"
The woman implores Marius: “Do not try to do anything for me. I want you to know the truth. These monsters are absolutely evil and racist.

I find it incredibly insensitive of Marius to allow them to publish the letter. :banghead: It feels like a betrayal. Yes, give it to Scotland Yard, but not to the media! What a m****!

 

[dotr]

http://www.allovernews.net/news/london-slaves-captors-linked-to-13-addresses

" Police have identified 13 addresses in London linked to the couple suspected of holding three women as prisoners for 30 years in a cult-type arrangement dominated by physical and mental abuse.

The number of properties associated with the couple, who are both aged 67, suggests that the victims were moved around several times over the last three decades.

The police continued to carry out house-to-house inquiries on Sunday at the latest address where the "family" lived – a ground-floor apartment in Peckford Place, Angell Town, Brixton, south London. The property is owned by Lambeth council.

That flat is only one piece in a complex jigsaw that the police are trying to piece together over a 30-year period".

 

[SouthAussie]

There is also a suggestion that the police and social services were contacted by a member of the public 15 years ago to alert them to the fact the youngest woman was not attending school.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/24/london-slaves-captors-metropolitan-police-inquiry


So what was done about this .... nothing?! Did they tell them they had to send her to school and never followed up? A missed opportunity to help these women, as often seems to happen in these types of cases. All the official agencies are too busy or too overworked to do anything but perfunctory checks.

Are children in the UK still allowed to leave school at 15 years old ... maybe she was 15 at the time and this is why nothing seems to have been done? She was told to say she didn't want to go to school?

 

[enzeder]

I'm trapped in a web by evil monsters: The anguished letter written by London slave

November 24, 2013

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/44...-Prisoner-wrote-letter-of-appeal-to-neighbour

Image: FORLORN: The captive in her 'prison' [NC]