Woman, 45, locks away husband, 80

A woman in central France has been detained by police after it emerged she had apparently kept her 80-year-old husband locked away in a laundry room for over a year. The man was kept in locked in the dark at the couple's house in Arrou and is...

A woman in central France has been detained by police after it emerged she had apparently kept her 80-year-old husband locked away in a laundry room for over a year.

The man was kept in locked in the dark at the couple's house in Arrou and is understood to have gone blind.

AFP reports

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