US EditionWoman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury
The victim was held for over 25 years in squalid conditions and forced into unpaid labor, with her benefits misappropriated, while social services failed to intervene for two decades.
- At Gloucester Crown Court, jurors found Amanda Wixon guilty on six charges including forced labour and unlawful detention after keeping a teenage girl as a 'house slave' for more than 25 years.
- Forced domestic labour and childcare duties left the victim to care for Wixon's children while Wixon locked doors, used threats, and prevented her leaving for over 20 years.
- Court heard grisly details of assaults that included washing-up liquid forced down the throat and bleach splashed on the face, while police officers found the victim in mouldy, overcrowded rooms with bruises and missing teeth.
- Judge Ian Lawrie KC told Wixon a jail term was "a certainty" as he granted conditional bail ahead of her March sentencing hearing, and she showed no visible reaction to the verdict.
- Record gaps from hospitals and dentists, prosecutors say, underscore decades of unseen confinement as social services did nothing, Mr Jones said, while the victim now lives with a foster family and attends college.
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As in the argument of a novel by Dickens, a woman from the English town of Tewkesbury has been convicted on Wednesday for keeping a young woman captive and enslaved in her house for two decades. During this time, Amanda Wixon, 56, forced her victim to do manual work, in addition to regularly assaulting her and depriving her of food and health care.The Gloucester Criminal Court has found Wixon guilty of the crimes of modern slavery, illegal deten…
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