A MUM-of-two was tortured, starved and beaten to death by a "pack of savages".
Shakira Spencer, 35, was tragically discovered at her west London flat when neighbours saw maggots crawling out from under her door.
The horrifying find came two weeks after Shakira was left for dead after suffering at the hands of Ashana Studholme, Lisa Richardson and Shaun Pendlebury.
The sick and twisted trio, who Shakira thought were her pals, bundled her into the boot of her own car and drove her back to her home.
She was last seen alive on September 12 last year struggling to walk and falling to the ground after a campaign of abuse.
Studholme, who led the sadistic group, had befriended the once-healthy mum and dominated her life in a year-long torment before her death.
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The 38-year-old woman, roped in pal Richardson, 44, and her boyfriend Pendlebury, 26,
Prosecutor Allison Hunter KC described the three as "a pack of feral savages" after they treated her like a slave.
Shakira was forced to wake up early and run errands after being fed only sachets of ketchup.
She was starved, burned and eventually battered before being locked in a hall cupboard to die.
Ms Hunter told the jury: "Shakira Spencer was clearly viewed as less than human by these three wicked defendants."
The killers later moved her to a bunk bed where it is not known whether Shakira was alive at this point.
They then left her body to rot for weeks.
Pendlebury claimed he only found out she had died when Studholme called him.
He said he went to check and found Shakira "basically motionless on the bed".
In the months leading up to her death, Shakira had fallen under the trio's "complete control".
She was isolated from friends and family as her freewill was "seemingly sapped and stolen from her".
The pictures - taken in act of "unbelievable depravity" - showed Shakira "bruised from head to foot with hollowed black eyes", Ms Hunter said.
Jurors heard how Shakira was likely murdered between September 11 and 12.
Studholme and Pendlebury then re-joined Richardson and allegedly "mounted the clean-up operation".
CCTV captured them buying cleaning products and returning to the flat four days later where the decomposition would have been so bad, the defendants "left her there to be found", the court heard.
A cause of death could not be determined but a post mortem found horror injuries Shakira had suffered before her death.
She had "crushing" injuries where her left ear would have been, lacerations on her scalp and wounds to her left eye socket.
The court heard there was "epidermal degloving of the feet, consistent with scalding", where the top layer of her skin had been burned away.
Pendlebury admitted to his mum Michelle Pendlebury and uncle that he had joined in on this particular attack, it was said.
Det Ch Insp Brian Howie, described Shakira as vulnerable.
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He said: "I think she just wanted to be cared for, loved, have a friendship group around her and was just coerced and manipulated over a long period of time by these people."
They were today found guilty of Shakira's murder and preventing a lawful burial.
