Twisted cult of Comrade Bala who controlled followers by claiming his ‘supercomputer Jackie could control the AGAIN’
A MAOist sect leader controlled his followers by claiming he had divine powers.
Aravindan Balakrishnanwho moved from there to Great Britain Singapore said in 1963 that a supernatural force called “Jackie” would destroy them if they tried to leave.
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He said that ‘Jackie’ could cause natural disasters if he disobeyed.
The 5ft communist followed the teachings of Chinese Chairman Mao and was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2016.
He was found guilty of multiple sexual assault, cruelty to a child under 16, false imprisonment and two charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm at Southwark Crown Court.
Balakrishnan led the sect, called the Workers’ Institute for Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, from a London Headquarters.
The sect Calling himself Comrade Bala, the leader waged a “brutal” campaign of violence and “sexual degradation” against women for decades.
He eventually fathered a daughter with one of his own brainwashed followers.
Katy Morgan-Davies was freed by anti-slavery charity Freedom in October 2013 after one of the followers of the Maoist leader, Belfast wife Josephine Herivel, contacted them.
Katy waived her right to anonymity and opened up about her disturbed father’s behavior in their Brixton flat and how he was “horrible, so inhuman and degrading”.
She said, “I felt like a caged bird with clipped wings.”
Two women died in his flat in Brixton, south London – which Katy called the ‘dark tower’.
Katy’s mother Sian Davies fell from a window in 1996 and died a few months later Hopital.
She said that night she heard screams and screams and saw her mother lying in blood, begging Bala to “kill me.”
She said she was so lonely that she tried to make friends with mice.
Malaysian-born Oh Kareng, died after hitting her head on a kitchen cabinet in 2004.
Katy said he didn’t tell her he was her father or that her mother Sian Davies was a follower.
Katy fled in 2005 and ended up with a Police station, but was persuaded to return home as it was a public holiday.
She added: “I want him to see that what he did was wrong. I’ve been a non-person all my life and now is my chance to be myself.”
Balakrishnan died in custody HMP Dartmoor in 2022 at the age of 81.
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The cult next door
The BBC2 documentary, directed by Vanessa Engle, tells the story of Balakrishnan’s cult and how it finally came to light in 2013 – when three women emerged from a small flat in Brixton after decades of imprisonment.
The film takes the sect back to its roots in the 1970s and includes interviews with two of the women who escaped: Aisha Wahab, a 72-year-old Malaysian woman who was part of the group for 40 years, and Katy Morgan. Davies, Balakrishnan’s daughter – who was born and raised in captivity.
The film documents how the group grew into a cult, where members were controlled, threatened and brainwashed so that they were too afraid to leave.