Alleged slaves seen in 1997's documentary

The Daily Telegraph today posted a video, shot in 1997, believed to be of the women rescued from alleged slavery, with Malaysian Siti Aisyah Abdul Wahab being one of them.

The video, filmed by an ITV documentary crew sixteen years ago, showed three women, arguing with a man who had asked to speak to prominent Maoist activists in the 1970s, Aravindan Balakrishnan.

The crew was filming a documentary on the death of Sian Davies, who died after a fall from the bathroom window of a house, rented by Aravindan who is also known as Comrade Bala and his wife Chanda.

The video footage showed a woman, believed to be the 57-years-old Ireland born Josephine, accusing the crew who had asked to speak to Comrade Bala at the door, as being agents of a fascist state.

“You are part of the fascist state. We don’t want to talk to you,” she said to them.

A spectacled woman, believed to be Siti Aishah told the man that they do not want to speak to them, before closing the door at the end of the video clip.

Siti Aishah and Josephine are believed to be one of three women freed on Oct 25 in London after one of them secretly contacted a charity.

The other is a 30-year-old Briton.

Aravindan and his wife Chanda were accused of holding the three women as slaves for 30 years.