Two women and a man murdered a vulnerable woman who was tortured, starved and battered to death. Ashana Studholme, Shaun Pendlebury and Lisa Richardson have all been jailed for life today.
They will serve a minimum term of 34 years each for the murder of Shakira Spencer. The defendants, from west London, "treated her like a slave", scalded her feet and fed her only ketchup from sachets, the Old Bailey was told.
Ms Spencer's body was found badly decomposed on September 26 2022 after neighbours saw maggots coming from her flat in Ealing, west London, and called police.
The mother-of-two had been isolated and forced into sex work in the months leading up to her death, it was claimed during the trial.
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