Aravindan Balakrishnan, who referred to himself as Comrade Bala, was jailed for 23 years in 2016 after he was discovered responsible of committing a string of sexual assaults and preserving his daughter captive for 30 years. Balakrishnan sexually abused numerous ladies by convincing them he had god-like powers, in accordance with a Sky News report.
In 1975, Kerala-born Balakrishnan moved from Singapore to South London, the place he arrange a secretive Maoist commune known as the ‘Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought’. He died in custody at HMP Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, the Prison Service stated.
During his trial, jurors heard he had raped two of his followers. He was additionally stated to have terrified his followers into believing he might learn their minds and {that a} supernatural power known as Jackie would trigger pure disasters in the event that they disobeyed his orders, BBC reported.
His daughter Katy Morgan-Davies, who had till not too long ago remained nameless within the case, has beforehand described her expertise in her father’s home as “horrible, so dehumanising and degrading”. “I felt like a caged bird with clipped wings,” she advised BBC.
While imprisoned in her father’s house, she was overwhelmed, and banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to high school or making buddies. It was solely as an adolescent that she learnt that her organic mom was one in every of her father’s followers.
She was in a position to escape her father’s cult in 2013, and has since moved to Leeds to pursue her training.
Balakrishnan confronted 16 costs together with rape, sexual assault and assault of two ladies, and wrongful imprisonment and baby cruelty in respect to his daughter.
During his trial, he denied all of the allegations towards him. He claimed he was “the focus of competition” between “jealous” ladies who made sexual advances at him.