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WorldWife sentenced over abuse of husband

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Wife sentenced over abuse of husband

An abusive woman smiled as she was given a four-year prison sentence after attacking, taunting, threatening, and humiliating her husband for 20 years.

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Sheree Spencer, 45, repeatedly launched “nasty” assaults on her husband Richard during which she punched, kicked, slapped, and bit him, leaving him feeling helpless and in terror.

Every day while beating him and making him clean up her own feces, she called him a “p****.”

The prison security guard was convicted at Hull Crown Court after irreparably disfiguring her partner’s ear and causing damage to his clothes, laptops, and phones.

Judge Kate Rayfield told her that the abuse of Mr Spencer was ‘the worst case of controlling and coercive behaviour I have seen’. 

As well as a prison term, Spencer was given an indefinite restraining order against her victim.

But she was still seen smiling as she left the dock to be taken down to the cells.

Spencer viciously hit her husband with a wine bottle, leaving him with a disfigured ear

Spencer admitted coercive and controlling behaviour between January 2016 and June 2021 and three offences of assaulting her husband, causing actual bodily harm, between January and April 2020.

Michele Stuart-Lofthouse, prosecuting, said that the couple had been together since 2000 and lived in Bubwith, near Selby, at the time. They have three young children.

Spencer’s violent behaviour towards her husband came to light after police were alerted due to concerns.

Even she was arrested, Spencer continued to ‘exert control’ over Richard during Family Court hearings, claiming she was the victim.

While sharing his story, Mr Spencer said: ‘I have had to seek help from my GP on several occasions.’

Videos shown to the court revealed ‘persistent, nasty physical and emotional abuse’ on a frequent basis, sometimes several times in a day.

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She grinned as she was taken down to the cells

Mr Spencer ‘cowered sometimes on his hands and knees on the floor’ as he was threatened and assaulted.

His wife showed ‘utter contempt for him’ and sometimes ‘whispered in his face in the most sinister way’, the court heard

She was also said to shout orders at him after drinking three bottles of wine a day.

Defence barrister Richard Pratt KC said that there was ‘little if anything’ that could be said in mitigation.

Mr Pratt said: ‘It’s a shocking, distressing case. Alcohol played the most significant part in what happened.’

During her job with the Ministry of Justice, Spencer had been working on a project connected with the impact of custodial sentences on families.

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