She spent her last hours in a padlocked cupboard

A mother was treated like a ‘specimen of humanity’ as she was brutally beaten and left to die in a locked cupboard at her home, a court heard. 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…