{"id":382590,"date":"2026-01-21T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382590\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:29:07","slug":"woman-guilty-of-keeping-slave-for-25-years-in-tewkesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/382590\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman guilty of keeping slave for 25 years in Tewkesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Det Sgt Alex Pockett said: &#8220;When the police arrived, the victim had her head held down, it was clear she was extremely scared.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Jones, prosecuting, told the jury: &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since being rescued, K is now living with a foster family, attending college and has been on holidays abroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wixon was released on conditional bail and will be sentenced on 12 March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As Wixon left court she was asked what she had to say to her victim and replied: &#8220;Not a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if she was sorry, she said: &#8220;No. I never done it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reporters asked if she was a &#8220;monster&#8221;, as she stopped to light a cigarette, and she replied: &#8220;Say what you think.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Det Sgt Alex Pockett said: &#8220;When the police arrived, the victim had her head held down, it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}