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Lets do some detective work Molls. You can find virtually any information on the net.
Human Trafficking-3 Woman Kept As Slaves in London
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Lets do some detective work Molls. You can find virtually any information on the net.
From googling it, it looks like noone knows where the house is.
http://www.brixtonblog.com/women-rescued-from-30-years-of-slavery-in-a-lambeth-house/18316 at the bottom it says "Do you know where the house is?" and has a phone number + http://www.london24.com/news/crime/..._slaves_lived_in_his_brixton_street_1_3028713
I tried a local newspaper website as these tend to say more details but found nothing.
Apparently they wont say why they were arrested in the 70s to protect their anonyminity. this would explain why they somehow have kept the street name secret (wouldnt it be cordoned off and the house easy to spot??). I am also interested why they got out on bail, wondering what the hell is going on that the press dont know about.
Im not very au fait with the legal system. Ive never heard of someone's anonyminity being kept in a situation like this before though? They seem to announce names of arrested people immediately usually. Makes you think.
http://www.brixtonblog.com/women-rescued-from-30-years-of-slavery-in-a-lambeth-house/18316 at the bottom it says "Do you know where the house is?" and has a phone number + http://www.london24.com/news/crime/..._slaves_lived_in_his_brixton_street_1_3028713
I tried a local newspaper website as these tend to say more details but found nothing.
Apparently they wont say why they were arrested in the 70s to protect their anonyminity. this would explain why they somehow have kept the street name secret (wouldnt it be cordoned off and the house easy to spot??). I am also interested why they got out on bail, wondering what the hell is going on that the press dont know about.
Im not very au fait with the legal system. Ive never heard of someone's anonyminity being kept in a situation like this before though? They seem to announce names of arrested people immediately usually. Makes you think.
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Easy as you go Madame!
It could alter the nature of our relationship for ever if it turns out that you have a sense of humour too.
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The first article says that the slavekeepers aren't British citizens.
It seems strange to me that they would get out on bail--wouldn't they just flee to their country of birth? Maybe the authorities take their passports, though.
It seems strange to me that they would get out on bail--wouldn't they just flee to their country of birth? Maybe the authorities take their passports, though.
Clueless Git
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Indeed!
Originaly I would have guessed that the couple arrested were from an Arabic or African culture.
I'm switching that guess to the couple coming, more likely, from a cultural background like that of Malaysia or Singapore.
Reason for that being whatever they have hit upon here clearly does not fit the standard slavery model.
A house with no less than three slaves being in a mess suggests a distinct lack of hard labour and forced servitude being in play. That the household has been described as 'having the appearance of a normal family' is another apparent irregularity.
[URL='http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fresh-details-london-slavery-probe-135706638.html#80v7Qas']Fresh Details In London 'Slavery' Probe - Yahoo News UK[/URL]
BBC News - Police reveal slavery case details
I just heard on the news the couple who were arrested came to the UK from India and Tanzania in the 1960's and the police are going door to door for information based around Peckford Place. The people met through a "shared political ideology" apparently.
(If that is the right address it wasn't that close to where I lived, well it was about 5 minutes drive away.)
BBC News - Police reveal slavery case details
I just heard on the news the couple who were arrested came to the UK from India and Tanzania in the 1960's and the police are going door to door for information based around Peckford Place. The people met through a "shared political ideology" apparently.
(If that is the right address it wasn't that close to where I lived, well it was about 5 minutes drive away.)
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I think there were lots of Indians living and working in east and South Africa in the previous century. (That is, in previous British colonies.) Gandhi was a lawyer in South Africa for a while. All Indians in Uganda were expelled by Idi Amin at one point, which obviously caused a lot of problems. I wonder if some of them ended up in Britain.
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I wonder if maybe the reason why the couple was released is because the prosecution thinks they have a really difficult case which they may well lose. The women may not be in a state where they will be able to give evidence in a court room. Or they may not even be willing to do so. And how can you prove there were "invisible handcuffs"?
Well, some people are actually interested in asking questions, rather than just making pronouncements. I suspect that's why God created the question mark.
JasonMcMilan
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human trafficking, wars, epidemics, will humanity survive or we will kill ourselves?
human trafficking, wars, epidemics, will humanity survive or we will kill ourselves?
What???? What's wrong with people??? I can't believe that this is happening in our country and in our time, given the level of development of technology and culture, it all had to be exterminated. I am so sorry for these poor women, and I hope they will recover from what happened one day. A few years ago, a friend of mine almost got into a similar situation, thank God two men were there and helped her leave. Even after this, it was difficult for her to recover, she could not walk the streets alone for a very long time, even during the day. Fortunately, there are organizations that fight against this and provide assistance to victims, she was helped by human trafficking volunteer, these guys took care of her and returned her to her usual way of life.
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