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divdiv class=story-body readability=32 span class=story-date#13; span class=date30 November 2013/span#13; span class=time-textLast updated at /spanspan class=time01:00 ET/span#13; #13; /span#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13; !-- This is the embedded player component --#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- wwrights check --#13; !-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13; #13; #13; #13; div class=videoInStoryB readability=1#13; div id=emp-25165513-1721 class=emp#13; #13; #13; noscript#13; div class=warning readability=1#13; img class=holding src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71444000/jpg/_71444467_71444466.jpg alt=Sian Davies/pstrongPlease turn on JavaScript./strong Media requires JavaScript to play./p#13; /div#13; /noscript#13; #13; !-- embedding script --#13; #13; /div#13; !-- companion banner -- #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- END - companion banner --!-- caption --p class=captionThe BBC's Tom Symonds: Her family heard little from her for 20 years/p#13; !-- END - caption --#13; #13; #13; #13; /div#13; !-- end of the embedded player component --#13; #13; !-- Player embedded -- #13; p class=introduction id=story_continues_1The cousin of a woman who belonged to a Maoist commune in south London being investigated by police for alleged slavery has accused its members of turning her against her family./p#13; pSian Davies died in 1997 after more than two decades with the activists./p#13; pEmyr Morgan told the BBC that members of the group wrongly claimed she was in India when she was in fact in hospital./p#13; pPolice have interviewed three women, aged 69, 57 and 30, allegedly held as slaves for 30 years./p#13; pMs Davies entered the Maoist commune in the mid 1970s, devoting her life and her money to its cause./p#13; pMr Morgan said she disappeared until 1997 when police told the family she had died after falling from a window at the group's house in south London./p#13; pHe said in the months before, Ms Davies's mother had called a number she had been given for the commune only to be told she was in India when she was in fact in hospital./p#13; pMr Morgan also said that at the inquest a commune member denied Ms Davies had a child./p#13; pThe BBC has seen the birth certificate of a 30-year-old woman that said Mother: Sian Davies./p#13; pThe woman is believed to be Rose, who last month called a charity along with another member of the commune begging for help./p#13; span class=cross-head'Thought through'/span#13; pMr Morgan claimed Ms Davies was psychologically controlled though political indoctrination./p#13; !-- Embedding the video player --#13; !-- This is the embedded player component --#13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- wwrights check --#13; !-- Empty country is used on test environment --#13; #13; #13; #13; div class=videoInStoryB readability=1#13; div id=emp-25166302-1722 class=emp#13; #13; #13; noscript#13; div class=warning readability=1#13; img class=holding src=http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/71445000/jpg/_71445234_71442934.jpg alt=Emyr Morgan/pstrongPlease turn on JavaScript./strong Media requires JavaScript to play./p#13; /div#13; /noscript#13; #13; !-- embedding script --#13; #13; /div#13; !-- companion banner -- #13; #13; #13; #13; !-- END - companion banner --!-- caption --p class=captionEmyr Morgan says his cousin Sian Davies had been 'indoctrinated'/p#13; !-- END - caption --#13; #13; #13; #13; /div#13; !-- end of the embedded player component --#13; #13; !-- Player embedded -- pHe said he did not have a phone conversation with Ms Davies but his mother and sister had./p#13; pMr Morgan said: My sister said it felt as if it was a very stunted conversation and that every answer was almost being thought through as if to say 'am I OK to say this'./p#13; pIt always felt during the phone conversations that they had that there was somebody else listening to her because it wasn't a natural conversation. There were all these pauses - it was like a transatlantic phone call./p#13; pPolice said three women were rescued from a house in Peckford Place, Brixton, last month./p#13; pThe alleged victims, a 30-year-old Briton, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 69-year-old Malaysian, are now in the care of a non-governmental organisation./p#13; pAravindan Balakrishnan, 73, and his wife Chanda, 67, have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in forced labour and slavery./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