‘I was so appalled when I saw her being tortured that I walked out of the room’

A woman accused of beating a mum and locking her in a cupboard to die told a court she was ‘appalled’ when she saw the victim being attacked. 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…