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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Holly Bishop

Filthy conditions where mother kept woman as ‘house slave’ for 25 years exposed

Bodycam footage shows the filthy Gloucestershire room where a woman was forced to live whilst kept as a “house slave” for a mother-of-10 for more than 25 years.

The woman, who is now in her mid-40s, was 16 when she moved into the squalid home of Amanda Wixon, 56, in 1995 and remained there until 2021.

Arrest footage of Nixon depicts the conditions of the bedroom the woman was forced to stay in, which police described as a “prison cell”.

The woman was regularly beaten, lived off scraps of food, and forced to wash secretly at night.

Wixon was found guilty by a jury of false imprisonment, two charges of requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour, and four charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

She was acquitted of one of the assault charges.

Wixon was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday (12 March).

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