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09.04.2022 - 12:55 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Maoist cult leader who imprisoned women for 30 years in his home has died in prison aged 81.
The Mirror reports that Aravindan Balakrishnan preyed upon his female followers and persuaded them he had god-like powers.
The cult leader referred to himself as Comrade Bala and was jailed in 2016 for 23 years after his cult, which he had been running since the 1970s, was exposed.
Balakrishnan was convicted of a number of offences, including child cruelty, false imprisonment and assault and he died in HMP Dartmoor yesterday, the BBC reported.
During his trial at Southwark Crown Court, jurors heard that he raped two of his followers.
Balakrishnan, from South London, also terrified his prisoners with a made-up robot he called Jackie which he claimed could read their minds.
His daughter Katy Morgan-Davies said her ordeal had been "horrible, so dehumanising and degrading" after she waived her right to anonymity.
She added: "I felt like a caged bird with clipped wings."
Ms Morgan-Davies branded her father a "narcissist and a psychopath" and added: "The people he looked up to were people like Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein - you couldn't criticise them either in the house.
"They were his gods and his heroes. These were the sort of people he wanted to emulate."
During her torment, she had been beaten and banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school, or making friends.
She accused her father of using the cult as a "pilot unit" for his grand ambitions of taking over the world.
She said: "I used to think, 'God, if the whole world is going to be like this, what way out is there? How am I going to live? I cannot live in this.
"So I used to think that the best way would be to die."
It wasn't until she was a teenager
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