{"id":14383,"date":"2026-01-21T16:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14383"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T16:39:15","slug":"woman-guilty-of-keeping-slave-for-25-years-in-tewkesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=14383","title":{"rendered":"Woman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clara Bullock,<\/span>West of England<\/span>and<\/span><\/p>\n

Maisie Lillywhite,<\/span>Gloucester<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"GloucestershireGloucestershire Constabulary<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mandy Wixon was found guilty of keeping another woman captive for 25 years<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A woman has been found guilty of keeping another woman with learning difficulties captive for 25 years and using her as a slave.<\/p>\n

Mother-of-10 Mandy Wixon made the vulnerable woman clean her squalid home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and forced her to live off scraps.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

At Gloucester Crown Court, Judge Ian Lawrie said there was a “Dickensian quality” to the case as Wixon was found guilty of false imprisonment, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labour, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mandy Wixon was arrested by police after concerns were raised by one of her sons<\/figcaption><\/p>\n
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The BBC has only now been able to report details of the case due to reporting restrictions.<\/p>\n

The court heard that the woman – who the BBC is calling K – was born into a troubled family and, when she was about 16 in 1996, was given to Wixon, who had a loose connection to her family.<\/p>\n

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

The court heard K was regularly beaten and also hit with a broom handle, knocking out her teeth.<\/p>\n

Her food was limited by Wixon and she could not leave the house and was forced to secretly wash at night.<\/p>\n

Officers described K’s bedroom as looking like a “prison cell”, with other bedrooms also untidy and dirty.<\/p>\n

She told police: “I don’t want to be here. I don’t feel safe. Mandy hits me all the time. I don’t like it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"GloucestershireGloucestershire Constabulary<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The victim was kept imprisoned in “squalid conditions”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Det Sgt Alex Pockett said: “When the police arrived, the victim had her head held down, it was clear she was extremely scared.<\/p>\n

“She had short hair, she looked extremely malnourished, she was in scruffy clothes,” Pockett added.<\/p>\n

Sam Jones, prosecuting, told the jury: “By the late 1990s it appears the woman disappeared into a black hole. Not a single meeting that left a record or a single sighting of her outside the house.”<\/p>\n

Since being rescued, K is now living with a foster family, attending college and has been on holidays abroad.<\/p>\n

Wixon was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 12 March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

#Woman #guilty #keeping #slave #years #Tewkesbury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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