Blowtorch thugs secretly tortured my girl to death for years… I mistook decline for drug abuse until true horror emerged

WHEN Lloyd Camacho met up with his girl 3 days earlier her 35th day helium was truthful shocked by her appearance, helium thought she had go a cause addict.

Mum-of-two Shakira Spencer wasn’t the vivacious, care-free pistillate he’d watched turn up. Instead she was scarily bladed and acting shifty.

When she denied she was taking drugs, Lloyd begged her to spot a doctor, fearing that she mightiness beryllium earnestly sick due to the fact that she’d mislaid truthful overmuch weight.

The world was overmuch much horrific. She was being starved and tortured by a trio of twisted people she thought were her champion friends.

Shakira, from Ealing, West London, had been preyed upon by Ashana Studholme, Lisa Richardson and Shaun Pendlebury, and implicit the people of a fewer years they took implicit her life.

They chopped her disconnected from her household and friends, took power of her level and her finances, leaving her with nary wealth to eat, feeding her packets of herb ketchup instead.

And successful a sick powerfulness travel they tortured her, burning her feet with a makeshift stroke torch and scolding her with boiling h2o earlier bludgeoning her implicit the caput and stuffing her into a cupboard to dice alone.

Her assemblage was lone discovered 2 weeks aboriginal erstwhile neighbours smelt rotting soma and spotted maggots nether her beforehand door.

In his archetypal interview astir his daughter’s tragic murder, Shakira’s begetter says helium stills struggles with the choler helium has towards her killers.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Lloyd said: “Those 3 were monsters, axenic evil. I’d accidental they were animals but that would beryllium insulting to animals. 

“Even animals don’t dainty their ain the mode they treated Shakira.

“Day aft day, going to their trial and seeing them, they had this benignant of don't care, don’t springiness a damn attitude, particularly Ashana, she had not a flicker of concern. 

“It was conscionable a time retired for her. I mean, that's conscionable axenic evil, isn't it? Pure evil.

“I was angry. I was heartbroken, if determination was nary obstruction betwixt maine and them, you know, I could person done them harm.”

Power trip

The existent fearfulness of Shakira’s last moments and however the police nailed her killers is being told successful a caller documentary, Crimes That Shook Britain, connected Crime+Investigation.

In March this twelvemonth the trio were sentenced to 34 years each aft being recovered blameworthy of Shakira’s murder.

While it brought an extremity to the horrific lawsuit for the police, for her loved ones, it was the commencement of a nightmare due to the fact that it was lone during the proceedings that they observe the existent trauma inflicted connected Shakira.

Ashana, considered the ringleader of the group, had befriended Shakira, but not for immoderate sisterly-style bond.

It was a powerfulness trip.

She wanted entree to Shakira’s level and her finances. And with the assistance of her boyfriend, Shaun, and her friend, Lisa, they groomed Shakira.

They made her deliberation they were champion friends who ever had her back, erstwhile successful world they were slowing cutting her disconnected from those who truly loved her.

And erstwhile COVID hit, they utilized the screen of lockdown to ramp up their plan.

All the while, Shakira’s household had nary hint what was going connected down closed doors.

Lloyd, 69, said: "Nobody suspected what they were doing to her due to the fact that erstwhile we met them, peculiarly Ashana, she ever came crossed arsenic rather helpful.

“No 1 suspected what was truly going connected down closed doors. 

“But I accidental that was the grooming part, they utilized COVID to chopped her disconnected from everyone who loved her and poured poison successful her ear. 

“Ashana made her consciousness similar she was the lone 1 who cared.”

Drug den

Lloyd had travelled to spot relatives successful Guyana successful aboriginal 2020 and got stuck determination arsenic planetary question crushed to a halt during the pandemic.

As lockdowns came into unit helium decided to enactment there, a determination helium regrets dearly present due to the fact that helium says helium mightiness person been capable to prevention his daughter.

He added: “Those 3 made her consciousness similar she had recovered a radical of friends that she was a portion of. They brainwashed her into reasoning they were doing close by her. 

“She was specified an innocent, forgiving person. She did not realise they were grooming her to get her spot to usage arsenic a cause den, to instrumentality her wealth and power her life.

“They broke her soul. They grabbed the accidental to instrumentality distant Shakira's life, took distant her slope paper and everything. 

“All her wealth that she was getting for the kids going into her account, they were conscionable spending it and not giving her any.”

When Lloyd returned to London successful 2022 helium tried to scope retired but couldn’t recognize wherefore she wasn’t arsenic responsive arsenic she utilized to beryllium connected the phone.

He had nary thought Ashana was controlling who she spoke to and would often reply connected Shakira’s behalf.

But erstwhile Lloyd did spot her for the archetypal clip successful 2 years, helium was stunned.

He explained: “When I came backmost and I saw the authorities of her, I was successful tears. 

“I said, ‘What's going on? Are you connected drugs?’ I had nary thought of what she was going through, the brutality and each that, due to the fact that I didn't spot immoderate outward bruises. 

“She hid everything truthful well. I had nary thought they were starving her, taking her wealth and feeding her lone ketchup. 

“It makes maine sick reasoning astir that. She honestly looked similar a cause addict. 

“She promised maine she wasn’t connected drugs, she said she’d been exercising a lot. I told her that benignant of value nonaccomplishment wasn’t mean and I begged her to spot a doc reasoning she mightiness beryllium truly sick. 

“But I deliberation she was frightened of what they would bash to her.”

Sickening torture

Recalling the past clip her ever saw Shakira, helium added: “It was conscionable a fewer days earlier her birthday. 

“I went implicit to spot her but she wouldn’t fto maine successful the flat. She said it wasn’t convenient to fto maine in. 

“I wanted to respect her privateness reasoning possibly she had a fellow up there. Maybe it was Shaun and helium was threatening her not to fto maine in, I’ll ne'er know. 

"So I met her successful the foyer. The archetypal happening she said to maine was, ‘Why are you here, you don’t emotion me, cipher loves me’. I was shocked. 

“I said to her, ‘If I don’t emotion you wherefore would I beryllium present now?’ I couldn’t judge it, I was looking astatine her and it was similar the airy had gone retired wrong of her.

“I could spot she was tense and frightened of thing but she wouldn’t fto maine cognize what it was. 

“I couldn't resistance her retired of determination and instrumentality her location with me, I could person been accused of kidnapping my ain daughter. 

“But that’s what I wanted to bash and I truly privation I had. I asked her to travel by my location to talk, she said she would, but I’m convinced immoderate clip I substance her aft that that it was them who were replying. 

“They had poisoned her caput and made her consciousness similar cipher loved her, adjacent though I did.”

Lloyd and Shakira’s sister, Ereena, didn’t halt trying to get done to her and constabulary fishy that it was erstwhile she started to propulsion backmost that she suffered the devastating onslaught astatine Ashana's level that ended her life.

Ashana, Lisa and Shaun utilized a marque displacement blowtorch to pain her feet, melted her tegument with boiling h2o and past they savagely bushed her implicit the head.

Shockingly, Shakira didn’t dice instantly of her injuries. 

They managed to bundle her successful their car and get her backmost to her ain level wherever they locked her successful a cupboard to dice unsocial and successful pain.

Police launched a execution investigation aft her decaying assemblage was discovered 2 weeks aboriginal successful September 2022.

Investigators looked astatine the trio arsenic their premier suspects due to the fact that Shaun really confessed to his mum what they had done to Shakira.

While his mum told him to spell to the police, helium refused, truthful she told his uncle, who past shopped him to the constabulary himself.

Stolen future

In Crimes The Shook Britain the constabulary uncover however they nailed them utilizing CCTV, ringing doorbell footage, substance messages and DNA grounds that linked them each to the murder.

While Ashana and Shaun had deleted their substance messages to effort and screen their tracks, Lisa hadn’t and constabulary work the grade of what they had done to Shakira.

Not lone had they been starving her, stealing her currency and surviving successful her flat, they had been encouraging her into enactment enactment to assistance money their lifestyle.

The fearfulness of what Shakira went done was truthful traumatic that Lloyd was near physically sick listening to the details during the trial.

He said: “I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t truly function. I was truthful aggravated astatine however they had bullied her, brainwashed her and murdered her successful acold blood. 

“No begetter should ever person to unrecorded done that. And the astir atrocious thing? They gained nothing. 

"It's not arsenic if they were surviving this precocious manner and they were making loads of wealth retired of Shakira oregon whatever. They were making nothing. She was surviving connected benefits.

“How overmuch could they beryllium getting? They destroyed a beauteous pistillate for a fewer pounds. 

“Shakira had her full beingness up of her and they stole it from her.

“Their absorption to being recovered blameworthy summed them up. Shaun said thing we couldn’t perceive and walked out, Ashana conscionable nonchalantly took it connected the chin. You know, that's her attitude. 

“And Lisa benignant of looked mislaid successful it all.

“I was pleased they got 34 years each. The brainsick happening to deliberation astir is they are going to beryllium treated amended successful prison than they treated my girl erstwhile she was alive. 

“But I accidental that is society, we can’t descend to their level of wasteland, to their level of humanity. 

“I conscionable anticipation that they are ne'er allowed to spell up for parole. I privation them to dice successful prison. 

“I don't privation them to travel retired due to the fact that they whitethorn good beryllium a information to idiosyncratic else, adjacent astatine the property they’d beryllium erstwhile they get out, due to the fact that they’d beryllium successful their 60s. 

“If you are that evil, property doesn’t alteration you. That’s who you are, they could bash it to idiosyncratic else.”

Reliving the fearfulness of what Shakira went done for this caller documentary has been pugnacious for Lloyd and the full family.

But helium says they agreed to it successful the hopeless anticipation it mightiness assistance idiosyncratic other from becoming a victim.

Lloyd said: “For me, thing is going to bring Shakira backmost but I privation this documentary to amusement youngsters watching that they request to beryllium alert of predators, radical who are wolves successful sheep’s clothing. 

“I truly anticipation by telling Shakira’s communicative we halt a fewer young ladies oregon young radical from falling into that trap. 

“I truly anticipation Shakira’s communicative is simply a informing and possibly idiosyncratic mightiness spot the signs they are being brainwashed, chopped disconnected from the household similar Shakira was and they tin marque a alteration earlier it’s excessively late.”

Crimes That Shook Britain is connected Crime+Investigation, Monday astatine 9pm.