Three jailed for life for murder of woman who was ‘treated like a slave’

Three jailed for life for murder of woman who was ‘treated like a slave’

Shakira Spencer, 35, died after falling under the influence of her former neighbour Ashana Studholme, 39, her lover Shaun Pendlebury, 26, and their friend Lisa Richardson, 45. The trio, from west London,... Read more »
Shakira Spencer: three found guilty of murdering woman ‘treated like a slave’ | UK news

Shakira Spencer: three found guilty of murdering woman ‘treated like a slave’ | UK news

Three people have been found guilty of murdering a vulnerable woman who was tortured, starved and “treated like a slave” over many months, reducing her to a “gaunt and skeletal” appearance. Shakira... Read more »
UK politicians and campaigners call for reparative justice for African slave trade | Slavery

UK politicians and campaigners call for reparative justice for African slave trade | Slavery

Politicians, campaigners and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary... Read more »
London family used wife as a house slave and forced her to drink engine oil

London family used wife as a house slave and forced her to drink engine oil

A husband and his four relatives used his wife as a house slave during 18 months of “honour-based” abuse, a court heard. The victim was threatened with death and made to drink... Read more »
Walthamstow area with links to Pocahontas and the slave trade

Walthamstow area with links to Pocahontas and the slave trade

The area of Low Hall, Walthamstow, is known to many as the home of a sports ground, nursery school, allotments, the fabulous Pump House Museum, and for the less salubrious South Access... Read more »
Globe-al perspective of the transatlantic slave trade – South London News

Globe-al perspective of the transatlantic slave trade – South London News

By Davina Hyde A borough has installed four globes marking a sculpture trail to explain the transatlantic slave trade as part of a art education project called The World Reimagined. Southwark’s free... Read more »
Statue of slave trader Robert Milligan to join Museum of London collection

Statue of slave trader Robert Milligan to join Museum of London collection

A statue of merchant and slave trader Robert Milligan will join the Museum of London Docklands collection where it can be “contextualised”. The controversial landmark was taken down from its plinth at... Read more »
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Frida Farrell who was kidnapped and held a sex slave says police were dubious of initial report

A model who was kidnapped, drugged and forced to have sex with numerous men at knife-point says she has flashbacks about the ‘moment she lost control’ and was captured – but sceptical... Read more »
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The London museum that has been boycotted because of a slave trader statue

Activists and residents in Hackney have launched a boycott today (October 19) of a local museum because of a statue of slave ship owner Robert Geffrye. The Museum of the Home has... Read more »
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Ocado delivery driver ‘treated like a slave’ as pay is slashed by ‘£5 an hour’

Delivery drivers for Ocado Zoom have protested against pay cuts and a decline in working conditions in West London. The delivery drivers gathered outside the Ocado Zoom depot in Acton last Thursday... Read more »