Our thanks to Jeff for this. Extracts:

“A woman has been found guilty of keeping another woman with learning difficulties captive for 25 years and using her as a slave.

Mother-of-10 Mandy Wixon made the vulnerable woman clean her squalid and overcrowded home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and forced her to live off scraps.

Washing-up liquid would be squirted down the victim’s throat, bleach splashed on her face, and she had her head repeatedly shaved against her will…

Now in her 40s, K was found by police on 15 March 2021 after one of Wixon’s sons raised concerns for her welfare.

The court heard K was regularly beaten and also hit with a broom handle, knocking out her teeth…

Wixon was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 12 March.

As she left court she was asked what she had to say to her victim and replied: “Not a lot.”

Asked if she was sorry, she said: “No. I never done it.”

Reporters asked if she was a “monster”, as she stopped to light a cigarette, and she replied: “Say what you think.”

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