Det Insp Kevin Hyland: "It's clear that there was a degree of freedom"
Detectives investigating the case of three women allegedly held as slaves for 30 years in south London have uncovered a "complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control".
The women, aged 69, 57 and 30, were rescued in Lambeth last month.
Commander Steve Rodhouse told a press briefing that the three women told police they had been beaten.
It has also emerged the couple suspected of keeping them as slaves were arrested in the 1970s.
Police would not reveal the reason why the couple, both 67 and understood to be married, were arrested.