Mandy Leacock has been jailed (Picture: Central)

A woman who used her brother’s date as a slave while feeding her on scraps from the bin has been jailed for four years.

Mandy Leacock, 36, repeatedly beat her victim, poured bleach over her in the bath, and pulled her hair out at her flat in Maida Vale, West London, for 14 months.

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She forced the victim, who cannot be named, to move in with her and used her as an ‘unpaid skivvy’ after she met her brother, Colin, in early 2014.

The victim tried to kill herself and accused Colin of raping her to try and get revenge at Leacock.




She took the victim’s bank card and went on spending sprees, buying expensive clothes and a watch for her ex-boyfriend as the victim.

She kept her brother’s date as a slave (Picture: Central)

Her victim told Southwark Crown Court: ‘Mandy made me a slave’.

She said she was assaulted ‘everyday’, explaining: ‘I felt humiliated. I didn’t cry because I got that used to it at the time.

‘I got used to getting hit, that’s why I didn’t cry. I haven’t got proper emotions.’

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The court heard the desperate woman ate from Leacock’s bin during the 14-month ordeal.

She left witness stand in floods of tears after explaining: ‘She starved me, I wasn’t allowed to eat at all.’

When Leacock left the flat in May 2016 the victim wandered into a local Co-Op covered in burns and scabs and with clumps of hair missing due to chemical damage.

Staff called for medical help and the police became involved.

Officers arrested Leacock in May 2016 on suspicion of false imprisonment and modern slavery.

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She pleaded guilty to three counts of causing actual bodily harm.

Jailing her for four years today Judge Stephen Robbins said: ‘I have seen the photos of the victim which show the awful physical harm that she sustained but do not show the mental anguish that she suffered.

‘Suffice to say that anyone who treats another human being – and a vulnerable one at that as she was with borderline personality disorder, suffering from depression and anxiety, taking overdoses – with sustained cruelty as you did can expect to receive an immediate custodial sentence of some length.

‘This was persistently cruel conduct, gratuitous degradation using a corrosive substance, bleach, on a vulnerable victim.

‘It was conduct over a lengthy period of time, you treated her like a slave, you beat her and pulled out her hair.

‘You further punished her by pouring bleach over her in the bath causing blistering and other wounds.’

Colin Leackock was cleared of all charges.