Woman who kept vulnerable victim as slave sentenced to 13 years

Mother-of-10 Mandy Wixon, 56, made the vulnerable woman clean her squalid and overcrowded home in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, and forced her to live off scraps.

I only knew how long I’d been kept as a slave by how many Christmases passed

She only knew how long she had been held captive by counting each passing Christmas. Now in her mid-40s, the victim was just 16 when she moved into the squalid home in Tewkesbury. Her ordeal finally ...