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Mother who held woman captive as a slave for 25 years jailed
Amanda Wixon exploited a vulnerable woman for over 25 years, stealing £100,000 in benefits and subjecting her to forced labour and severe abuse, a court heard.
- The court sentenced Wixon to 13 years, ordering she serve two-thirds, after her January conviction at Gloucester Crown Court for slavery and assault offences.
- K, who has learning difficulties, was taken into Wixon's home in 1996 at age 16, with benefits paid into Wixon's bank account, totaling over �100,000.
- Police attending after a March 2021 tip-off found a 'prison cell'-like bedroom with filth and mould, while doctors described K as malnourished with scarring and ankle calluses.
- K now lives with a foster family and attends college after rescue, while Judge Ian Lawrie KC said Wixon is in 'permanent denial' and imposed a significant sentence due to lasting trauma.
- Detective Superintendent Ian Fletcher said it was one of the 'worst cases' he'd ever seen, with nearly 25 years of suffering, while police work with the DWP and psychologists warn of lifelong trauma.
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Judge Ian Lawrie, who handed down the sentence on Thursday, stressed the "gravity" of the facts, deploring that Ms Wixon was in a "permanent denial" of her actions on the victim, whose identity was anonymized.
Amanda Wixon, 56, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for abusing a woman entrusted to her care for 25 years. Several of the charges against Wixon were modern-day slavery. She was imprisoned, beaten, and forced to perform hard labor. By the time of her release, the 42-year-old victim had lost all her teeth.
A 56-year-old British woman was sentenced on Thursday to 13 years in prison after forcing a young adolescent with disabilities to work as a domestic slave in unhealthy conditions for 25 years in Gloucestershire, eastern England.
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Wilts & Gloucestershire StandardMother-of-10 jailed for keeping ‘house slave’ at squalid home in Gloucestershire
A mother-of-10 who forced a teenage girl to work as a “house slave” for more than 25 years has been jailed for 13 years.
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