8 Jul, 2016 @ 15:06
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British teen held captive by father for two years in squalid conditions in Spain released

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boy hostageA BRITISH teen has been released after being held captive by his mentally unstable father for two years in Spain.

The 19-year-old was apparently freed after he was able to send an SOS to police from his computer after managing to bypass the parental controls his father had installed.

He emailed the police on atencionfamiliaymujer@policia.es saying: “Rescue. Assistance. Help me. I am desperate. My father abuses me. I am held prisoner. Please, do not get in touch with me because he would kill me.”
Witnesses say he weighed just six stone when he was carried away by the authorities in a blanket.

The teen, who is of Indian descent but has British nationality, was suffering from malnutrition, dehydration and disorientation.

He had been kept captive in the Rivas Vaciamadrid district of Madrid, where he is thought to have a suffered a torrent of physical and psychological abuse.

He claims he was beaten several times a day and given minute amounts of food and water.

boy hostage 2His father had installed bars on the windows and placed wood and scrap metal across the first floor of the property so he could not escape from the landing.

It is reported that the father believed neighbours were trying to poison them through their water supply and that he was the target of the Russian mafia.

Neighbours say there was so much rubbish in the house that it was infested with rats and cockroaches.

The father has been charged with a crime of illegal detention and ill-treatment in the family and was released on bail.

 

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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