London ‘slave’ girl’s desperate plea letter revealed: ‘I’m like a fly trapped in a spider’s web’

The despairing letters of the youngest of three hostages held captive for three decades have been revealed.

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by Jessica Anais Rach |
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Rosie, 30, wrote hundreds of letters to a neighbour from captivity, describing the desperate circumstances forced on her by the couple who adopted her when she was a baby after her parents died in a fire.

Rosie was allegedly held prisoner her entire life, alongside a 69-year-old Malaysian woman and a 57-year-old Irish woman, in South London until their escape last month.

The couple accused of holding the women captive, are a 67-year-old Indian man and his Tanzanian wife.

'They imprisoned me here, locking all the doors and windows'

Now details of some of the 220 poems and letters Rosie wrote to her 26-year-old neighbour Marius Feneck, whom she developed a crush on, have been revealed.

One letter reads: ‘I want you to know the truth.

'These monsters here are absolutely evil and racist.

The flats in London where the women were allegedly held
The flats in London where the women were allegedly held

‘I begged them that horrible night not to tear us apart, but they said they’d HARM YOU if I don’t promise to stay away from you... and then they imprisoned me here, locking all the doors and windows,’ Rosie wrote.

‘I daren’t try anything because I know they’ll do something evil to you if I do... So I’m like a fly trapped in a spider’s web...

‘I apologise to you from the bottom of my heart for the evil actions of these crooks who dare to call themselves my “relatives”. I HATE them!’

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She goes on: ‘I suffer unspeakable torment, yet every bit is worth it, to keep my beloved safe.

‘I will surely die if anything happened to you. I would gladly stay in this evil monsters’ dark dungeon for the rest of my life – hey I would gladly give up my life (I call it life, but it’s not, it’s only existence... your ever loyal dragon Rosie.’

‘She began sending me photos of herself.'

Mr Feneck, 26, a welding student said he received knitted gifts which were sprayed with strong perfume and birthday cards.

‘One day I was speaking to Rosie and she told me she had come to Britain after her parents died in a fire and the people she was living with had adopted her but she didn’t say where she came from originally,’ he said.

‘She began sending me photos of herself. They were signed darling love Red Head Rosie or Writer Rosie. She said things like she loved me and we were meant to be together.’

Police were present to escort the women from the property

‘I spoke to them [the other women] once or twice a year when I was passing,’ he said.

‘They would never volunteer names. If you asked they would change the subject.’

‘I would speak to the people inside that flat at least once a week. I didn’t think the three women were imprisoned as I would see them going out to places.’

‘Slavery is all around us, hidden in plain sight'

Last night Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said tackling modern slavery in Britain was a ‘personal priority’.

She said: ‘It is all around us, hidden in plain sight. Something most of us thought consigned to history books, belonging to a different century, is a shameful and shocking presence in modern Britain.’

A man and woman, both 67, were arrested last Thursday but released on bail after being questioned over false imprisonment and immigration offences.

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