Unnamed woman held against her will since mid-1990s by Amanda Wixon, who beat her and shaved her head
A woman was imprisoned and forced to work for a mother and her 10 children for more than a quarter of a century in an ordeal described at the end of a crown court trial as “Dickensian”.
The woman, who is now in her 40s and cannot be named, lived off scraps, could not leave the house and was forced to wash secretly at night, Gloucester crown court was told.
She was regularly beaten by Amanda Wixon, 56, had washing-up liquid squirted down her throat, bleach splashed on her face and her head was repeatedly shaved against her will.
The woman, who has learning disabilities, was 16 when she moved into Wixon’s home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, in the mid-1990s and was supposed to stay only for the weekend but remained there until she was discovered by police in 2021.
