A 40-year-old Indian woman was kept prisoner for six months by the Obhrai family on their 2-million-pound estate in Middlesex.
She was passed between two other families where she was forced to work for 2 pounds an hour and raped several times by butcher Enkarta Balapovi, according to the Independent .
Her passport was taken away and she was forced to work 17-hour shifts seven days a week, fed only on out-of-date food and the chewed leftovers of their three children.
When the woman, who could only speak Hindi, tried to contact police on multiple occasions, she was returned to her abusers as they were used as interpreters.
The woman, who is illiterate, came to Britain in 2005 in search of a better life, but was left wheelchair-bound after being injured so badly by her employers over a three-year period.
Shashi Obhrai acted as the woman’s master and on one occasion beat her with a rolling pin because she did not like the way she made chapattis.
The victim was left with scars on her body from the fingernails of Obhrai, who also dragged her down stairs, burned her with an iron and threatened to stab her with insulin needles.
On another occasion the victim was too dizzy to cook because she was so underfed, so her masters beat her until she was sick and made her clear up the vomit with her own clothes.
“They have made my life hell. I have suffered with depression and sleepless nights for a very long time. I have to take medication so that I can sleep,” she said.
They treated her so badly that she worries at night that they will come for her.
Shashi Obhrai put a hot iron on her arm when she asked her for her earnings to be paid.
Over the three years she was kept as a slave, she was paid just 2,000 pounds, which she sent back to her family in Hyderabad.
Authorities estimate that she should have earned 170,000 pounds during that time, considering the long hours she was forced to work.
She was first taken to hospital in 2006 when her then employer Shamina Yousuf, 33, hurled a cup at her and slashed open her foot.
The woman did not know how to call 999 until 2007, but faced language barriers when she did.
She made repeated calls on one day, but by the time Hertfordshire Police arrived the Obhrais were home and she could not speak to them.
Another time she showed police a jar of unrecognisable slop she had been given to eat, and she was taken to hospital.
But after being discharged from hospital she was returend to Obhrai, who acted as her interpreter, took her home in tears, and then threatened to kill her.
Obhrai held a knife to her neck and told her she had spolied the family name and would be buried in the garden and no one would ever know.
She attempted to contact police and other organisations at least a dozen times but her pleas were ignored, Croydon Crown Court heard.
On one occasion a professional interpreter told police she was telling lies, and that this was common in India.
Obhrai of Moor Park, Middlesex and Yousuf of Edgware, north London, were both convicted of assault. Obhrai, an optician, was additionally convicted of threats to kill.
Balapovi of St John’s Wood, northwest London, was convicted of rape by a jury at Croydon Crown Court. They will be sentenced next month. (ANI)