Lambeth "slaves": Group had first lived together in a "collective" The third woman, aged 30, is believed to have been born in the south London house. Officers have described the case as a "complicated and disturbing picture of emotional control." Officers are now conducting house-to-house inquiries in Lambeth, focused around Peckford Place, Brixton, where it is believed the women were found. In a statement, Mr Rodhouse said: "We believe that two of the victims met the male suspect in London through a shared political ideology, and that they lived together at an address that you could effectively call a 'collective'. Somehow that collective came to an end and the women ended up continuing to live with the suspects. How this resulted in the women living in this way for over 30 years is what are seeking to establish, but we believe emotional and physical abuse has been a feature of all the victims' lives. The alleged emotional control and abuse was similar in character to a "semi-religious cult," two sources close to the case have reportedly told the Guardian. Scotland Yard revealed that part of the agreement when the women were removed from the address on October 25 was that police would not at that stage take any action. "Since that date we have been working to gain their trust and evidence, that came to fruition on 21 November when we were in a position to make arrests," Mr Rodhouse said. The three women were rescued from the house after one of them called the Freedom Charity. A man and woman, both 67, who were arrested at the house on Thursday morning as part of the investigation, are of Indian and Tanzanian origin and came to the UK in the 1960s, police said.