Shaun Pendlebury is on trial for the murder of 35-year-old Shakira Spencer (pictured) alongside his girlfriend Ashana Studholme, 38, and their friend Lisa Richardson, 44.
Shaun Pendlebury denies murdering Shakira Spencer in West London last year. His girlfriend Ashana Studholme and friend Lisa Richardson also deny murderA man accused of torturing and beating a woman to death has told jurors he found her in a 'bad way' inside a cupboard and she refused his offer to call and ambulance for her.
She went from being a 'beautiful, happy, healthy' size 16 to a 'gaunt and skeletal' size six shortly before her death, jurors were previously told. Shakira Spencer, 35, was enslaved, tortured, burned and beaten to death by three 'sadistic' killers, and was only found after neighbours saw maggots coming from her flat, a court heard
On his return, he helped her out of the cupboard and to a children's bed and helped her with the soup because it was too thick for her to drink through a straw, jurors heard. She was found dead by police at her home in Hanwell, west London, after a neighbour spotted maggots crawling from under her front door, a court heard
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