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| Formal police interviews with three women allegedly held as slaves in London for 30 years are due to begin. | Formal police interviews with three women allegedly held as slaves in London for 30 years are due to begin. |
| Police say the evidential interviews will not be conducted at a police station but at a suitable place. | Police say the evidential interviews will not be conducted at a police station but at a suitable place. |
| The women, aged 69, 57 and 30, were rescued from a house in Peckford Place, Brixton last month. A married couple were arrested over the allegations. | |
| The case came to light after one of the women rang Freedom Charity to say she had been held against her will. | The case came to light after one of the women rang Freedom Charity to say she had been held against her will. |
| Previously, the Met Police has said they believe two of the three women met the male suspect "through a shared political ideology" before living together as a "collective". | |
| Sian Davies death | |
| The BBC understands that the couple arrested are 73-year-old Aravindan Balakrishnan and his 67-year-old wife Chanda. | |
| They were arrested on suspicion of being involved in forced labour and slavery, as well as immigration offences, and have been released on bail until January. | |
| According to national Marxist records, they were leading figures at the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre in Acre Lane, Brixton, in the 1970s. | |
| The arrested couple have been linked to 13 addresses across London, the Met has said, but the force would not confirm or deny their names. | |
| The force said it would also review the case of Sian Davies, who died in mysterious circumstances in 1997. | |
| She died in hospital, seven months after falling from a bathroom window of a house where the collective were living. | |
| In 1997, a documentary was made about the death of Ms Davies. Mr Balakrishnan was captured in the footage. | |
| The three alleged victims, a 30-year-old Briton, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian, are in the care of a non-governmental organisation following their rescue last month. | |
| The 57-year-old woman called Freedom Charity last month, claiming they were being held in the property, after watching a documentary dealing with issues like forced marriages. | |
| Police said the 30-year-old woman, who is believed to have lived her entire life in servitude, had a birth certificate but no other official papers. |