A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her "squalid" home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Amanda Wixon, 56, forced the woman – now in her 40s – to shave her hair, regularly beat her if she didn’t complete jobs around the home, and made her live off "scraps" of food.
It’s also understood that while being held, Wixon, a mother of 10, stole more than £100,000 in benefits from the victim.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/mother-who-held-woman-captive-as-a-slave-for-25-years-jailed-13518465
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