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Dad kept me captive for 30 Years

For three decades Katy was locked away from the world

Katy Morgan-Davies, 41

Peering through the window, I spied birthday balloons and kids running around laughing.

They looked around my age – about five years old.

‘Evil fascist agents!’ hissed the man I lived with, Aravindan Balakrishnan, then 47, dragging me away from the window.

I was the youngest in our home, which we shared with around 10 women including his wife Chanda, then 41. Aravindan Balakrishnan – AB for short – was the only man. He was our leader.

I very rarely left our house, and

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