{"id":256468,"date":"2026-01-21T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256468\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:09:10","slug":"woman-guilty-of-keeping-slave-for-25-years-in-tewkesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/256468\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clara Bullock,West of Englandand<\/p>\n

Maisie Lillywhite,Gloucester<\/p>\n

\"GloucestershireGloucestershire Constabulary<\/p>\n

Mandy Wixon was found guilty of keeping another woman captive for 25 years<\/p>\n

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

Mandy Wixon was arrested by police after concerns were raised by one of her sons<\/p>\n

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

\"GloucestershireGloucestershire Constabulary<\/p>\n

The victim was kept imprisoned in “squalid conditions”<\/p>\n

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

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

As Wixon left court she was asked what she had to say to her victim and replied: “Not a lot.”<\/p>\n

Asked if she was sorry, she said: “No. I never done it.”<\/p>\n

Reporters asked if she was a “monster”, as she stopped to light a cigarette, and she replied: “Say what you think.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Bullock,West of Englandand Maisie Lillywhite,Gloucester Gloucestershire Constabulary Mandy Wixon was found guilty of keeping another woman captive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-256468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}