‘Woman had video calls to see torture victim battered to death’

A mother accused of battering a woman to death was shown attacks on the victim when she was away from the scene on video calls ‘so she did not miss out on the amusement,’ a court heard. Shakira Spencer, 35, was found dead in Holbeck Road, 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’…