{"id":471469,"date":"2026-03-12T12:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T12:47:09","slug":"woman-who-was-kept-as-slave-for-25-years-will-live-with-trauma-for-life-court-hears-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471469\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who was kept as slave for 25 years will ‘live with trauma’ for life, court hears – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nightmares continue for victim – prosecutionpublished at 10:52 GMT<\/p>\n

10:52 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Phil Mackie
At Gloucester Crown Court<\/p>\n

Despite the physical injuries, the psychological effect of Wixon’s actions have had the worst impact on K, Jones continued.<\/p>\n

Nightmares have continued for K, years after she was removed from Wixon’s home in Tewkesbury.<\/p>\n

In a statement from the victim\u2019s foster mother, which was read out in court, we learned more about her rehabilitation after being rescued.<\/p>\n

At first, we were told she struggled with basic day-to-day living. She didn\u2019t know how to go outside, how to cross a road, didn\u2019t even know how to dress appropriately for bad weather.<\/p>\n

She was deprived of food and drink for so long that she struggled to understand that she didn\u2019t need to ask permission from the foster mother who looks after her. <\/p>\n

“She felt the need to clean all the time, she found it impossible to relax – this appeared to be engraved in her,” Jones said, reading from a statement from K’s foster mother’s statement.<\/p>\n

As the court was being told this, the victim reached for a box of tissues and wiped tears from her eyes, and was comforted by one of the appropriate adults with her. <\/p>\n

Her foster mum says she thinks after the case is over, K will thrive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nightmares continue for victim – prosecutionpublished at 10:52 GMT 10:52 GMT Phil MackieAt Gloucester Crown Court Despite the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471469","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\/471469","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=471469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}