Shakira Spencer: Chilling final CCTV images of mother starved and murdered by trio jailed for life

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Chilling CCTV images have been launched exhibiting the gaunt body of a mother days earlier than she crushed to loss of life after being starved and tortured.

Ashana Studholme, 38, her lover Shaun Pendlebury, 26, and their good friend Lisa Richardson, 44, had been every jailed for life on Friday for the homicide of Shakira Spencer in west London, having inflicted a “sadistic campaign” in opposition to her that ended together with her dying in a cabinet.

The 35-year-old was discovered useless in her flat in Ealing when neighbours noticed maggots coming from beneath her entrance door.

CCTV recovered by the police confirmed the final time Spencer was seen in public, slowly crossing a street across the time of the assault which killed her.

The “beautiful, happy, healthy” 35-year-old fell beneath the affect of the trio, and could be woken up within the early hours to wash their properties or be despatched on errands to the outlets over many months by which she was remoted and robbed of her cash.

They additionally scalded Ms Spencer’s toes and fed her solely ketchup from sachets, inflicting months of torture by which she turned “skeletal”, going from a measurement 16 costume measurement to a six. Messages discovered on her killers’ telephones included movies of Ms Spencer being crushed up, whereas others laughed and jeered.

The trio’s abuse of Ms Spencer got here to a climax when she was crushed in a “frenzied, violent assault” between 9 and 12 September 2022.

They had been every jailed for life with a minimal of 34 years on the Old Bailey on Friday, with decide Angela Rafferty KC describing her remedy as an “orgy of violence”, including: “This was a sadistic campaign in which you all took pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering on a vulnerable woman.”

Ms Spencer’s son, who canot be named for authorized causes, described the trio who killed his mother as “cruel and evil” in an impression assertion learn out at Friday’s listening to, saying: “I’ve suffered with daily nightmares and anxiety over what happened to her, I cannot get the horrible image of my mother looking skinny and unwell out of my head.

“Why were they so heartless? What could cause them to torture another human? I hope that every day they feel bad for the choices they have made. I cannot believe people she thought were her friends would ever do this to her. These people are cruel and evil, they do not deserve to live a normal happy life again.”