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divdiv class=story-body readability=36 span class=story-date#13; span class=date21 November 2013/span#13;span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time12:07 ET/span#13; #13;/span#13;#13; #13;#13;#13; #13; #13; #13; p class=introductionThree women have been rescued from a south London house as police investigate claims they were held as slaves for at least 30 years./p#13; pPolice arrested a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman in Lambeth./p#13; pLast month officers were contacted by Freedom Charity after it received a call from a woman saying she had been held against her will for decades./p#13; pA Malaysian woman, 69, an Irish woman, 57, and a British woman, 30, were all rescued from the house./p#13; pThe women, who are said to be highly traumatised, are now in safe accommodation. /p#13; div class=story-feature narrow#13; a class=hidden href=#story_continues_1Continue reading the main story/a h2 class=quote“spanStart Quote/span/h2#13;blockquote readability=1p class=first-childWe have never seen anything of this magnitude before”/p/blockquote#13;span class=endquoteEnd Quote/span#13; span class=quote-creditDet Insp Kevin Hyland/span#13; span class=quote-credit-titleMet Police/span#13;#13; /div p id=story_continues_1Police said they were not related to each other and the 30-year-old had spent her whole life in servitude. Officers are trying to establish whether she was born in the house. /p#13; pDet Insp Kevin Hyland, from the Metropolitan Police's Human Trafficking Unit, said: We have seen some cases when people have been held for 10 years, but we have never seen anything of this magnitude before./p#13; pHe added that the women had controlled lives and spent most of it indoors, but they had some freedom. /p#13; pPolice said the facts behind the situation were being slowly established as specialist workers were assisting the women. Officers said there was no evidence of sexual abuse. /p#13; span class=cross-head'Absolutely terrified'/span#13; pWe applaud the actions of Freedom Charity and are working in partnership to support these victims who appear to have been held for over 30 years, Mr Hyland said. /p#13; pWe have launched an extensive investigation to establish the facts surrounding these very serious allegations./p#13; pA television documentary on forced marriages relating to the work of Freedom Charity was the catalyst that prompted one of the victims to call for help and led to their rescue./p#13; pAneeta Prem, founder of Freedom Charity, told a href=http://news.sky.com/Sky News/a the alleged victims were able to walk out of the house after receiving help from the charity. /p#13; pShe said: We started in-depth to talks to them when they could. It had to be pre-arranged. They gave us set times when they were able to speak to us./p#13; pIt was planned that they would be able to walk out of the property. The police were on standby./p#13; pThe two people who were arrested were considered the heads of the family, Ms Prem said, adding that the rescued women felt they were in massive danger and were absolutely terrified./p#13; pShe added that the women were extreme brave to pick up the phone and contact the charity for help. /p#13; pMs Prem said: They are going to have to try and rebuild their lives and that is going to be very difficult for women that have spent 30 years being held against their will. /p#13; pI think it is also a story of great hope that despite this horrendous tragedy of being kept in these circumstances they are now free and they are able to start to rebuild their lives slowly./p#13; /div/divbrbrcentera href=http://www.wizardrss.comPowered By WizardRSS.com/a | a href=http://www.wizardrss.comFull Text RSS Feed/a | a href=http://www.amazon.com/RFID-Blocking-Cards-Identity-Protector/dp/B00CJHZLEWRFID/a | a href=http://www.wpzonbuilder.comAmazon Affiliate/a/center