British teenager kept prisoner in his bedroom for two years released in dramatic rescue

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British teenager kept prisoner in his bedroom for two years released in dramatic rescue
BY MARTIN BAGOT

The 19-year-old was found in the house with bars on the windows and was carried out of the house by police in a blanket

MADRID: -- An emaciated British teenager has been discovered in Spain after allegedly being kept prisoner in his bedroom for two years.

The 19-year-old was found in the house with bars on the windows weighing just over six stone and was carried out of the house by police in a blanket.

Officers said he was suffering from malnutrition and his father has been charged with illegal detention and ill-treatment in the family.

The man, who is of Indian decent but reportedly has British citizenship, was only freed after he sent an email to police begging them to raid the home in the Rivas Vaciamadrid district of Madrid.

Full story: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/british-teenager-kept-prisoner-bedroom-8373346

-- Mirror 2016-07-08

[lostinisaan]

What a sick world.......

[kingalfred]

And the person who locked the kid up is released on bail! Gotta laugh

[jaidam]

The mind boggles. Just what would a teenager do locked up in his bedroom for 2 years? I would not want to wash the bed sheets. I can imagine the dad shouting "if you don't stop that you'll go blind son", er dad I'm over here!

[edwinchester]

The mind boggles. Just what would a teenager do locked up in his bedroom for 2 years? I would not want to wash the bed sheets. I can imagine the dad shouting "if you don't stop that you'll go blind son", er dad I'm over here!

A teenager is starved and physically abused by the father for 2 years and your one comment is a cheap masturbation joke......really?

[car720]

quite possible the kid refused an arranged marriage.

People forget that cavemen still exist in India.

[puukao]

if you see or hear something suspicious, report it!!!!

when a parent abuses a kid who loves them, generally, no matter what.....well, it doesn't get much worse than this...

[mesterm]

quite possible the kid refused an arranged marriage.

People forget that cavemen still exist in India.

Maybe his dad wanted to marry him.

[ddavidovsky]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

[DLang]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

Save yourself the cheap cover and just say: 'White = British, non-White = whatever cave, jungle, or sandpit they crawled to Briton from'.

[SoiBiker]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

They're reporting the news, not pandering to the sensitivities of the bigoted.

[landtrout]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

Presumably, you're from the Upper Bucklebury branch of the Davidovsky family?

Or are you simply holding a British passport?

[ilostmypassword]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

Presumably, you're from the Upper Bucklebury branch of the Davidovsky family?

Or are you simply holding a British passport?

Pretty sure the Davidovskys came over with William the Conqueror. Sounds French. Which means they haven't even been in Britain for 1000 years, much less thousands and thousands of years. Send those Norman arrivistes packing.

Edited July 8, 2016 by ilostmypassword

[Yann55]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

They're reporting the news, not pandering to the sensitivities of the bigoted.

Bigoted, and racist.

At least he has a British passport. When the British occupied India, pillaged it and called it home for 200 years, they didn't bother to hold an Indian passport. Some people just don't seem to understand that in politics, economics and sociology, as in all other matters, you reap what you sow. But most of all, some people (or should I say most) have a very short memory span.

As for the 'thousand years of local culture' ...

1/ The Angles (who gave England its name) were of Germanic origin and invaded the islands in pre-Roman times.

2/ The conquest of England by the Romans started with Julius Caesar around 50 bc, continued by Claudius about a century later. Emperor Hadrian's wall was built around 125 AD.

3/ The Norman conquest of England occured in 1066 under the leadership of William II of Normandy. To this day, innumerable traces of the Norman/French culture are to be found in the English culture and language.

4/ Until 1917 the House of Windsor, to whom Her Gracious Majesty belongs, was called House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

All these 'foreign' influences didn't make English culture poorer, they made it richer. A richness wich is now severely under attack by parochialism, xenophobia and narrow-mindedness.

Edited July 8, 2016 by Yann55

[williamgeorgeallen]

if you see or hear something suspicious, report it!!!!

when a parent abuses a kid who loves them, generally, no matter what.....well, it doesn't get much worse than this...

unless you are a foreigner in thailand, then just keep to yourself. sad fact but if you want to have a good life here just keep your nose out of anything that does not concern you.

[humqdpf]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

They're reporting the news, not pandering to the sensitivities of the bigoted.

Bigoted, and racist.

At least he has a British passport. When the British occupied India, pillaged it and called it home for 200 years, they didn't bother to hold an Indian passport. Some people just don't seem to understand that in politics, economics and sociology, as in all other matters, you reap what you sow. But most of all, some people (or should I say most) have a very short memory span.

As for the 'thousand years of local culture' ...

1/ The Angles (who gave England its name) were of Germanic origin and invaded the islands in pre-Roman times.

2/ The conquest of England by the Romans started with Julius Caesar around 50 bc, continued by Claudius about a century later. Emperor Hadrian's wall was built around 125 AD.

3/ The Norman conquest of England occured in 1066 under the leadership of William II of Normandy. To this day, innumerable traces of the Norman/French culture are to be found in the English culture and language.

4/ Until 1917 the House of Windsor, to whom Her Gracious Majesty belongs, was called House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

All these 'foreign' influences didn't make English culture poorer, they made it richer. A richness wich is now severely under attack by parochialism, xenophobia and narrow-mindedness.

You forgot to mention the Dutch invasion of William of Orange. It is glossed over as an invitation but I think that invitation was issued long after the guests had arrived and made themselves at home.

[ddavidovsky]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

They're reporting the news, not pandering to the sensitivities of the bigoted.

The news should be factual and this was misleading - almost bait and switch. I read the headline and was puzzled as to how such behaviour would fit into British culture because I can't think of any precedent. I recall another case in South London in recent years of someone being kept prisoner - that also turned out to be by Indians.

If the headline was "Person of Indian extraction kept teenager prisoner..." I would have just shrugged and thought "Again".

[natway09]

Got the message, Terrible,

Bad reporting though, (the bars on the windows weighed 6 stone)

[natway09]

Got the message, Terrible,

Bad reporting though, (the bars on the windows weighed 6 stone)

[ddavidovsky]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

Presumably, you're from the Upper Bucklebury branch of the Davidovsky family?

Or are you simply holding a British passport?

Pretty sure the Davidovskys came over with William the Conqueror. Sounds French. Which means they haven't even been in Britain for 1000 years, much less thousands and thousands of years. Send those Norman arrivistes packing.

The username is just to throw you all off the scent. I'm Anglo-Saxon, my ancestors apparently arrived in about 450 AD, and worked hard all those centuries to develop the place into what has apparently become the most coveted country on earth. Call me sentimental, but the term 'British' denotes having taken part in all that history.

[SoiBiker]

I'm a Celt. Bugger off back where you came from.

[ddavidovsky]

I'm a Celt. Bugger off back where you came from.

Nice try, but I don't think there were any Celts in Yorkshire at the time (well, correct me if I'm wrong - I have nothing but respect for the Celts).

In any case, I guess you wouldn't like it if that Indian chap was officially called a Celt because he happened to make himself at home in Celtish parts.

[ddavidovsky]

I'm a Celt. Bugger off back where you came from.

Nice try, but I don't think there were any Celts in Yorkshire at the time (well, correct me if I'm wrong - I have nothing but respect for the Celts).

In any case, I guess you wouldn't like it if that Indian chap was officially called a Celt because he happened to make himself at home in Celtish parts.

[halloween]

The username is just to throw you all off the scent. I'm Anglo-Saxon, my ancestors apparently arrived in about 450 AD, and worked hard all those centuries to develop the place into what has apparently become the most coveted country on earth. Call me sentimental, but the term 'British' denotes having taken part in all that history.

"the most coveted country on earth" isn't in the northern hemisphere.

[dunroaming]

Staggering the level of racist vitriol there is on this website, especially when it comes from people who are immigrants in an Asian country. Maybe that doesn't count though.

With the new economic powerhouses being China (that's chinks to you racists) and India (that being Paki's to you bigots) I wonder how the members on here will feel when they are running the world and we are all working for them or maybe just asking them for handouts?

[Bangkok Barry]

I wish they would make the distinction between someone of British ethnicity (ie, cleaving to thousands of years of local culture) and someone simply holding a British passport (ie, having just turned up and made himself at home). Big difference.

Save yourself the cheap cover and just say: 'White = British, non-White = whatever cave, jungle, or sandpit they crawled to Briton from'.

He makes a good point. Many immigrants cling to their own culture and rarely mix with locals (unlike any expats in Thailand, of course ). But in this case his remark is off-course as this particular father is obviously mentally ill (see end of the story in the link).

[ddavidovsky]

Staggering the level of racist vitriol there is on this website, especially when it comes from people who are immigrants in an Asian country. Maybe that doesn't count though.

With the new economic powerhouses being China (that's chinks to you racists) and India (that being Paki's to you bigots) I wonder how the members on here will feel when they are running the world and we are all working for them or maybe just asking them for handouts?

Don't you agree that this news story is more about Indian culture than British culture? That's all this discussion is about.

[lostinisaan]

The mind boggles. Just what would a teenager do locked up in his bedroom for 2 years? I would not want to wash the bed sheets. I can imagine the dad shouting "if you don't stop that you'll go blind son", er dad I'm over here!

Not that the topic itself is already of a strange nature. But having strange posters like you makes the world to a even stranger one. Sicko.

[lostinisaan]

I'm a Celt. Bugger off back where you came from.

So where does your family come from...?

Celtic Gypsy's, perhaps?

[SoiBiker]

I'm a Celt. Bugger off back where you came from.

So where does your family come from...?

Kernow.