Last Updated: 3:40pm, Nov 26, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 26): A retired teacher near here has claimed that the Malaysian woman held captive in the UK for 30 years is her sister who had disappeared after joining an extreme Communist sect in the 1970s.

Kamar Mautum said she believed that her sister Aishah, 69, was one of the women allegedly held captive by the leaders of a Communist collective for three decades, the Telegraph, UK reported today.

Aishah had won a Commonwealth scholarship to study surveying in London, the report said. She moved to Britain in 1968 with her fiancé and dreamed of balancing an exciting career with a family, but was soon involved in extremist politics, eventually giving up everything to follow a Maoist doctrine.

Read the full report here.

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