On Tuesday the Spanish police had held in custody two siblings who kept their 59-year-old brother locked in "inhuman conditions"...
The man, who is said to suffer from mental illness, was discovered uncovered in a tiny room without a roof in the southern town of Dos Hermanas, on a dirty mattress next to which bottles and buckets were kept for him to use as toilet, police said in a statement.
Police in the town near Seville noticed this horrifying incident when they brought his 76-year-old drunk brother back to his home following complaints of disturbing behaviour.
"When they were inside the home, they saw a door at the end of a corridor closed with a chain... and padlock," Spain's national police said in a statement.
"After asking the man, he said that was where his brother lived, who had mental problems and whom they kept isolated for his security."Their 61year old sister also lived in the same house and said she kept him fed and cleaned, and looked after his 1,000-euro ($1,100) monthly pension.
"Because of the abnormal behaviour the police noticed, they asked both siblings to open the door to check the state of their brother," police said.
"Once they went through, they came across another door closed by a wooden beam."
"After going through both doors, they found a crumbling, narrow staircase that went up to a type of dovecote," they added, before discovering the brother in the tiny roofless hovel.
"His health and cleanliness were shockingly bad and the state of the place was very dirty without access to running water or toilets," police said, describing his living conditions as "inhuman."The took the man to the hospital, while his two siblings were detained.
