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ITV NEWS HAS broadcast video footage purportedly showing the suspects and victims at the heart of the domestic servitude case in London.
The images were obtained from a 1997 documentary which examined the suspicious circumstances of the death of a British woman. Sian Davies died after falling from a window in the Maoist group’s Brixton house and there are suggestions that the youngest woman rescued last week is her daughter.
The pictures show suspects Aravindan Balakrishnan and Comrade Chanda outside the inquest into the commune member.
Chanda, now 67, pictured in a wheelchair in 1997. (Image: ITV News)
There is also footage of women at the door of the group’s home. The broadcaster reported that two of the women are those at the centre of the investigation.
The Irish woman in the video has been identifed as Armagh native Josephine Herivel by British media. It is believed that she is the well-educated daughter of mathematician John Herivel who was a World War II code-breaker for the British army.
The Daily Telegraph reports that he was part of the Bletchley Park team that cracked the German Enigma ciphers in 1940. The newspaper says Josephine has two sisters who she grew up with in Belfast but was estranged in the 1970s after moving to London for study, getting caught up in the commune.
Obituaries for her father mention only two daughters, Mary and Susan.
The second woman, a 67-year-old Malaysian called Aishah Waham, also appears in the video.
Image: ITV News
According to press reports from 1978, both women were arrested during a raid on the Brixton property.
It emerged this week that the two suspects, 73-year-old Balakrishnan and his 67-year-old wife Chanda, were leaders of a Maoist collective that has links with at least 13 properties in London.
Extreme communists, they admired China’s Mao Tse Tung and recruited people with similar ideologies.
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They will go up regardless now thats its been talked about
@bruce banner: i was just thinking the same…..its the next big excuse to be used…… It will make a change from everything costing 50%more because of Brexit and the war in Ukraine excuse
@bruce banner: Exactly. All companies need id s whiff of an excuse and they jack up the price to twice what any increase would be. It was already shown in a large study in America that 50% of all price increases during the covid affected inflationary period were just pure profiteering.
Another golden opportunity to fleece us
@Ross McAndrew: or an opportunity to find the Golden Fleece
@Ross McAndrew:
Don’t allow anyone to fleece you
All you have to do don’t purchase
very simple but everyone must do it
You will have no impact if just a few people do it
@Donal: that’s true, good advice too :)
If this puts an extra €5 on Jack Daniel’s,it will now make it €24.99 a bottle. Do ya know what,I don’t care. I’m still gonna buy it,and party like it’s €19.99
@Larry Betts: excellent
We criminally pay more for everything in Ireland than the rest of the eu . Insurance. / energy / mortgage … you name it , we pay more for everything.
The Irish government NEVER address this imbalance? Why ?
@BL Music: because they’re the cause/beneficiary of it.
Let the gouging begin!
“The EU has threatened before to place 50% tires on American whiskey,” I wonder if this is the cause of inflation if they continue to pump up the prices…..
@Larry Betts: wrong thread
The world is a con and an illusion. Why they think this is the best system for the people who vote for them to represent us makes no sense.
When they could put a system in place that still lines their pockets but at the same time makes our everyday lives better.
Just when I thought that the EU had run out of ways to screw businesses and lair on more extra costs, they come out with this nonsense. You don’t put out a fire by adding more gasoline to it. By doing reciprocal tariffs, all they are doing is feeding into Trump’s narrative that they are engaging in unfair trading practices and that his tariff increases are justified. The EU already slaps a 10% tariff on cars, a 50% tariff on dairy products, a 20% tariff on cereal grains, a 25% tariff on alcoholic beverages and a 25% tariff on steel + aluminium among other American products. The EU should be looking to get Trump to the negotiating table to discuss a reduction in tariffs, not provoking him further. This is one of the things that I hate about the EU. They are economically illiterate.
@William Jennings: Whats the avg weighted EU tariff William? What’s the US’s? I’ll tell you. It’s 1.6% for the EU and 1.61% for the US as per World Bank. As I have explained to you before, the EU imposes a tariff of 10% on imported cars to protects its manufacturers as cars are the big selling vehicles in the EU. The US on the other hand is 2.5% but cars are not big sellers in the US. It’s mainly pick ups/4x4s/SUVs. The US imposes a 25% tariff on these. So I’m sure you agree 25% is larger than 10% therefore it’s the US that is screwing others over, right? And I’m sure in any negotiations Trump would lower this tariff right? No he wouldn’t because he wants to protect American manufacturers.
Everything is priced to they think society is prepared to pay. If it’s overpriced it doesn’t sell.
We need government price controls.The ‘coalition’ are clueless and don’t give a damn about the mess they have and continue to make of our once proud nation. They have put housing out of the reach of our young( the ones that are still here!).Our ‘normal’ working population is dwindling….expect pension age to be increased to 75 shortly. How come one can purchase a perfectly habitable house in the UK for c.€150,00. In France, Spain, you can buy a house with a pool for similar money but yet in Ireland you are expected to pay the same for a rusty galvanised walls falling down cattle shed that cost even more money to dismantle it before you start the rebuild! The so called Government grants are only being added on to over inflate the buying price. Young people haven’t got a chance.
How to achieve net zero in a subversive way.
Lower taxes on gastronomy and locally produced alcohol!
So long as the price of condoms doesn’t rise(!!), I’ll be fine.
@Harry Callahan: If it doesn’t rise, use Viagara. If nothing else,it’ll stop you rolling out of bed in the middle of the night.
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