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Richard Spencer suffered two decades of abuse at the hands of his wife Sheree From an outsider’s perspective, Richard Spencer had the perfect life – a successful career on a six-figure salary, living in a large seven bedroom home nestled in a leafy suburb with his wife and their three beautiful young girls.
It was for this reason Police Officers believed they had the wrong home when they initially turned up to the property with a Jaguar parked outside to investigate a potential case of domestic abuse in June 2021.
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Yet behind closed doors Richard Spencer, 47, had been suffering from a 20-year long campaign of terror at the hands of his wife Sheree, 46, who would batter and bite him during wine-fuelled tirades.
The former Prison Reform Boss was jailed last year after Richard presented officers with 43 images of his bruised body having secretly recording the incessant abuse on cameras installed to monitor their children at their home in Bubwith, East Yorkshire.
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Last night, the brave father-of-three spoke openly about the abuse he suffered at the hands of his wife in the harrowing Channel 5 documentary ‘My Wife, My Abuser: The Secret Footage’.
Disturbing clips revealed just a fraction of the torment Richard suffered. On one occasion Spencer is seen holding a knife up to her husband throat as their children are heard crying in the background.
On another, she is seen grabbing his hair and punching him all over while sat on a sofa in the children’s nursery, as she calls him a ‘fat c***’ and a ‘lazy b******’ for not putting a chicken in the oven.
But the physical abuse only formed part of what a judge later described as one ‘the worst cases of coercive control’ they had ever seen, with Richard explaining it was the humiliation and verbal abuse he suffered affected him the most.
From an outsider’s perspective, Richard Spencer had the perfect life. Yet for two decades he was suffering abuse at the hands of his wife Sheree.
Richard was beaten at the hands of his wife Sheree during a 20-year long campaign of terror
Sheree Spencer was jailed for four years last month after he secretly recorded the abuse on cameras installed to monitor their children
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My Wife, My Abuser exposes chilling 20-year abuse of man by his wife
‘Things that affected me more than the physical attacks would be the more demoralising things she would do to me,’ he said.
‘In the kitchen we would often have a box of 12 or more eggs which she would take over to me and crack over my head or push into my face. She was so angry sometimes that the egg shell would cut into my skin.
‘I’d have to go upstairs and shower to get the egg out of my hair and clothes – I would feel hopeless a lot of the time after these things happened.’
Disturbing audio footage played reveals Spencer telling her husband as he washed away the egg shells: ‘Keep cleaning you c***. Keep cleaning you dirty b****. Keep scrubbing man, scrub away you b****.’
Richard said ‘one of the most demoralising’ incidents occurred when his wife ordered him to get off their bed as ‘she bought the bed on her credit card’. While he sat on the floor arguing with her, she proceeded to defecate on his head.
Audio clips reveal Richard telling his wife he did not ‘deserve it’ only for her to order him: ‘clean my s*** up’.
On other occasions Spencer would make comments about Richard’s late mother – who died from cancer when he was just nine-years-old, causing him to suppress his emotions.
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In a bid to try and hurt her husband, who she called a ‘robot’, Spencer would try and use his childhood trauma to inflict further pain – callously make comments such as ‘I hope your sister dies from breast cancer’ and ‘I hope she’s dead’.
Spencer’s reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker.
The couple met in 2000 in a nightclub and married in Thailand in 2009 before having three daughters.
Other audio clips reveal Spencer telling Richard ‘The problem in our marriage is because of you’, referring to the fact they had to use IVF to conceive.
Spencer tried to portray Richard as the villain in their relationship. At one point during a rage, Spencer smashed a wine bottle over Richard’s ear leaving it permanently disfigured.
When he tried to raise with her the pain he was in, she began kicking him in the ear and threatened to smash her face into their bathroom mirror so she could tell a friend or neighbour Richard had caused the injury.
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Recalling the conversation, Richard said his wife said: ‘And once I’ve done that, I can get a restraining order against you, so you never see your baby.’
In a depraved bid to portray her husband as the abuser, she went on to shout out of their open bedroom window ‘stop it, stop it Richard your hurting me, stop hitting me all the time’ in an attempt for neighbours to hear.
Eventually the couple’s neighbours became aware of the abusive relationship, with Richard eventually opening up about his wife’s behaviour following a BBQ next door that Spencer interrupted to order the children to go to bed.
Richard had been attending the party alone with the three girls when suddenly his wife had popped up over the fence to make the demand. When he returned he began speaking about the situation.
Recalling one incident, the couple’s neighbour Pip Williams told the documentary: ‘I think she had asked him to go to the shop, get wine or something, and he hesitated and looked at her. She then picked up a carving knife and slashed the car tyres.
Footage showed furious wine-fuelled tirades, in which Sheree would call her husband ‘fat boy,’ ‘a pussy’ and ‘dumb dumb’ and inflict bruises and scratches.
The hidden nanny camera gave a vital way out for battered husband Richard after he endured years of physical and verbal abuse from his wife, that sometimes left him ‘broken’ in a foetal position
Spencer worked at the highest levels for HM Prison and Probation Service and bragged to friends that she had the ear of former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson
‘There was another awful story when the three little girls were in the back of the car, Sheree was in the driving seat, and she kicked the wingmirror and then proceeds to wee on the seat and said sort that out.’
Throughout the programme, Richard said his wife had tried to involve their daughters in their arguments, telling them claim they were ‘afraid of daddy’.
One clip showed her clutching one of the young girls, telling her ‘he’s a horrible, horrible man and we’ll get rid of him soon’.
On other occasions Richard said she would tell their eldest child to tell the neighbours ‘daddy’s hitting mummy’ or that ‘daddy’s a nasty man’.
PC Adele Jenkinson of Humberside Police Criminal Investigation Department said during the programme that if the abuse had not been played out in front of his children, the father would not have voiced the abuse.
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‘I believe he even told me once, had she left the abuse behind closed doors form their children, had she kept it separate he would not have got anyone else involved as he felt like he was handling it and controlling it.
‘He could put up with abuse if he got the family life he wanted and he felt like he deserved. So he was happy, to an extent, continue their dysfunctional family, if it meant he had a family to go home to.’
The Officer said he only collected the evidence in order to protect his young girls.
Bite marks and bruises shown on Richard’s body after he suffered from an attack from his wife
Equally explosive clips from Police interviews show Sheree casually lying about her husband being the abuser, only for her face to turn ashen when confronted with the clips
Spencer, 46, was jailed for four years for making her husband Richard’s life a living hell with daily beatings and verbal attacks that left him cowering on the floor in a foetal position
Richard, now happily settled with a new partner, decided to take part in the Channel 5 documentary to help other abused men speak out.
Throughout the programme, bodycam footage from officer’s showed the moment they arrived at the Yorkshire home to interview Spencer over the images of domestic abuse they had seen.
When Spencer was taken to the Police Station, clips appeared to show the mother-of-three more concerned about not being spotted by neighbours as she clambered into the back of the officer’s van.
‘Can you shove me in before anyone sees me,’ she asks as she climbs into the vehicle.
Officers later claimed that Spencer was more concerned about whether her husband had packed her straighteners in her overnight bag following her interview and did not ask questions about her children’s whereabouts.
Explosive clips from Police interviews shared in the documentary, show Spencer casually lying about her husband being the abuser in a desperate bid to cast him as the villain – only for her face to turn ashen when she was confronted with the full audio footage.
Throughout the interview she accused her husband of being a ‘drunk’ and ‘violent towards her’ accusing him of pushing her on the floor and claiming the bite marks were made while the couple were having sex.
When probed by officers on the nanny-cam footage that showed her clutching a ‘carving knife’, Spencer said she ‘went to push him [Richard] back’.
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Richard felt his harrowing experiences should be seen to raise awareness of the type of abuse men can suffer in their daily lives at the hands of violent partners.
Richard had met his wife in a nightclub in 2000, and the pair married on a Thai beach in 2009
In one clip, Spencer is seen walking around with a carving knife which she later held up against her husband’s throat
The officer presses on: ‘You’ve got a knife in your hand, what are you doing pushing him with a knife in your hand? So you must know exactly what’s happening here. Could you explain that to me please?’
Spencer says:
‘I wanted to give him it because he had threatened me, that he wanted to kill me, he’d rather kill me than divorce me. And I did reach for a knife – if he wants to kill me, just do it.’
Officers said Spencer went into autopilot as she explained the scenario – she was saying ‘I was saying I wanted to die and I was giving Richard the knife and saying you’re going to have to kill me because I can’t live like this any more’.
MailOnline previously revealed that Spencer had gone through desperate lengths at the courts to try and prevent the documentary from being broadcast.
But Richard felt his harrowing experiences should be seen to raise awareness of the type of abuse men can suffer in their daily lives at the hands of violent partners but Sheree tried to block it.
He told MailOnline:
‘Sheree tried to stop the documentary being broadcast in the Crown Court but failed, then she applied for a prohibited steps order through the family court, which luckily was rejected and thrown out at the first hearing.
‘The broadcast has been delayed due to the legal challenges for about six months, but now it is finally going to be shown. I’m hopeful that the film will be well received and will make a difference.’
Richard, who was subjected to verbal abuse and daily beatings from his wife, that left him cowering on the floor in a foetal position, took photos of his injuries
Richard (pictured outside the BBC Breakfast studios in Manchester),was subjected to violent attacks at the hands of his wife Sheree at their seven-bedroom home in Bubwith, East Yorkshire.
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Richard, now happily settled with a new partner, decided to take part in the Channel 5 documentary to help other abused men speak out
Richard had met his wife in a nightclub in 2000, and the pair married on a Thai beach in 2009.
After they welcomed the eldest of their three daughters in 2015, Richard installed the nanny camera so they could keep watch over her.
Hull Crown Court heard that mother-of-three Spencer had carried out most of the attacks on her husband in the family home.
Spencer worked at the highest levels for HM Prison and Probation Service and bragged to friends that she had the ear of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
She was a Project Manager in the department’s directorate of strategy and performance.
A former friend said: ‘She would brag about being only two down from the Prime Minister in her field and had meetings with Boris Johnson, who she spoke of as though he were a friend.
‘She was bragging about her high flying career while subjecting her poor husband, a lovely man, to daily abuse, degradation and humiliation.’
It was described as ‘a great irony’ that Spencer had done so much work aimed at investigating the effect of custodial sentences on the family.
(DAILY MAIL, UK).
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