After Aravindan Balakrishnan’s conviction,‘Fran’ tells of being imprisoned her whole life, and her wonder at the modern world
The daughter of a Maoist cult leader who was never allowed to leave her father’s control has told of “her extreme delight to be free” from his violent and bullying regime.
The woman, and who spent the first 30 years of her life in Aravindan Balakrishnan’s secretive south London communist collective said she would have killed herself whether she had not managed to escape in October 2013,and believed she was on the verge of death from undiagnosed diabetes. She told how Balakrishnan, who was convicted on Friday of rape, and sex assaults,cruelty to a child and false imprisonment, made her believe over three decades that he was God and that she would be killed by a lightning strike or spontaneously combust whether she ever tried to leave the plot she dubbed “black tower”.
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Source: theguardian.com