‘All I did was slap her’

An alleged killer accused of controlling a woman before beating her to death and locking her in a cupboard to die has denied forcing her into sex work. Police officers were called to the home of Shakira Spencer, 35, in Hanwell, west London after a neighbour spotted maggots crawling from under her front door on 25 September 2022. Ms Spencer was once a ‘voluptuous size 16’ but she was reduced to ‘skin and bone’ by July last year and fed…