They burned her, gave her only ketchup and killed her

Abomination a crime It recently came to light and it shocked me Britainwith a couple To keep a woman as their slave, who brutally mistreated them and forced them to serve them. In the end, the victim died in their arms.

Two women and one man were convicted of the crime The murder of Shakira SpencerWho was tortured and murdered by her former neighbor Ashana Studholme, her lover Sean Pendlebury, and their friend Lisa Richardson.

History of torture

The extent of the abuse to which Spencer was subjected is horrific, according to her independent. During the trial, it was testified that the defendants were from west London.I was treated like a slaveThey burned her feet and fed her nothing but ketchup packets.”

Her body was found last September In advanced decay After neighbors saw worms crawling out the front door of her home in Ealing, west London.

Sudholme, according to the affidavits, was the first to approach Shakira, forcefully kidnap her, and subject her to carrying out the couple’s orders. For several months She was isolated, prostituted, forced to work, and had all her money stolen.

They would wake her up at dawn to clean their houses and then send her shopping. Her abuse, which included Beating, burning and starvationIt culminated around September 11 and 12, 2023, when the couple beat her nearly to death, put her in the trunk of their car, and took her home, where they locked her covered in blood in a closet.

They tried to cover their tracks

It is not known what happened between these events and their tragic end, but the couple’s audacity did not stop after Spencer’s death. And in their hands is a corpse They tried to cover their tracks First, they covered the body with ice to slow decomposition, while laying it on its bed next to some newspapers. Regulating “natural death” while readingH.

“By July 2022, Shakira Spencer was skin and bones,” Chief Prosecutor Alison Hunter said. Weak and skeletal, bruised from head to toe, with sunken black eyes. Whatever their unimaginably cruel and sadistic motives, these three defendants… They tortured, exploited, burned and eventually beat Shakira Spencer to death».

Following the sentencing hearings, Judge Angela Rafferty rescheduled the sentencing hearing.