Aravindan Balakrishnan died in custody at a jail in south-west England, stated UK Prison Service. (File)

London:

An Indian-origin man who ran a secretive extremist Maoist cult in London and was sentenced to 23 years in jail by a UK court docket for a string of sexual assaults six years in the past has died in jail.

Aravindan Balakrishnan, identified to his followers as Comrade Bala, was sentenced for six counts of indecent assault, 4 counts of rape and two counts of precise bodily hurt again in 2016.

The 81-year-old discovered responsible of “brutal” violence died in custody at HMP Dartmoor jail in south-west England on Friday, the UK Prison Service stated.

The cult chief had been convicted following a jury trial in December 2015, the place it emerged that he had saved his daughter in captivity for over 30 years of her life.

The daughter described her scenario in court docket as “horrible, dehumanising and degrading”.

Sentencing Balakrishnan in January 2016, the choose stated: “You decided to treat her as a project, not a person. You claimed to do it for her to protect her from the outside world, but you created a cruel environment.”

Balakrishnan, born in a village of Kerala, lived and grew up in Singapore and Malaysia earlier than transferring to the UK in 1963 to check on the London School of Economics.

It is there that he met Chanda, whom he married in 1969 at concerning the time he started his collective.

Scotland Yard raided the couple’s flat in Brixton, south London, in November 2013 after two followers had known as the Palm Cove Society charity searching for assist.

Balakrishnan had denied fees of rape and instructed the jury that he was “the focus of competition” between “jealous” girls who made sexual advances at him.

The sentencing adopted a prolonged investigation right into a case which Scotland Yard detectives described as “completely unique”.

Detective chief superintendent Tom Manson, from the Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Command, stated on the time: “It seems extraordinary that Balakrishnan could command such control over so many people, however all of the victims have told us in great detail that they very much believed his claims of power and greatness and the threats he made to them. They all described feelings of fear and being totally controlled him.”

“All of the women have faced huge challenges in adapting to day-to-day life since they left Balakrishnan’s control but with the support of a number of charities and professionals are making exceptional progress and their bravery deserves recognition and praise,” he added.

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