LONDON — Three women have been freed after spending 30 years held captive in a London home, including one woman thought to have spent her entire life in domestic slavery, police said Thursday.
London’s Metropolitan Police spoke about the rescues after two people — a man and a woman, both 67 — were arrested early Thursday on suspicion of forced labor and domestic servitude.
The arrests came as part of an investigation launched after one of the women contacted a charity in October to say she was being held against her will with two others.
Those freed Oct. 25 are a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old British woman, police said.
Kevin Hyland, head of the Metropolitan Police’s human trafficking unit, said the women are “highly traumatized,” having had “no real exposure to the outside world” for the past 30 years.
