On the evening before she was due to meet with police to go over statements about her experience as a slave, a frightened Tamil woman received a call at her nursing home.
“If you listen to the police you’ll never be able to leave this country, you’ll be here until you perish, until you die,” the caller said, claiming to be a court translator who wanted to help.
The woman, who is now aged in her 70s, was due to give evidence against her slave keeper Kumuthini Kannan.
After the hour-long call, which had been made from a shopping centre pay phone, the victim screamed, cried and struggled to breathe….