10.05pm GMT

We're closing this live blog now. But first here's a final recap of today's events:

• Three women have been freed from 30 years of domestic slavery in a house in Lambeth, south London. Police said although they were aware of cases of people being held for up to 10 years, they had never seen a case of this “magnitude” before.

• One of the women, who is 30, may have spent all her life in the house and like the others had only “limited freedom”, the Metropolitan police said. The other women are a 69-year-old from Malaysia and a 57-year-old from Ireland. The three are “highly traumatised” and are currently together at a place of safety, Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland said. They are not thought to be related to one another. There is no evidence of sexual abuse.

• Although the women were rescued on 25 October, police only moved to arrest two suspects this morning after “establishing the facts” and because of the fact the victims are “extremely traumatised”. The suspects are not British and are both 67, police said. Police would not confirm whether they were related.

• The rescue was facilitated by the organisation Freedom Charity after one of the women contacted the charity after seeing its spokeswoman Aneeta Prem on the television. Prem praised her as being “hugely courageous” and called this “a story of great hope”.