Secret digicam footage reveals battered husband threatened with a knife

Chilling never-before-seen footage from a nanny cam has revealed the second a battered husband cowered on the ground whereas his spouse hurled abuse at him and brandished a knife of their residence throughout her 20-year reign of terror.

Damning movies of Sheree Spencer’s assaults on husband Richard at their seven-bedroom residence in Bubwith, East Yorkshire, had been captured on cameras the couple had put in to observe their youngsters.

And explosive clips from police interviews present Sheree casually mendacity about her husband being the abuser, just for her face to show ashen when confronted with the footage. 

On one event she defecated on the ground and compelled him to wash it up, and on one other she beat him with a wine bottle so arduous it completely disfigured his ear. 

Sheree, 45, was jailed for 4 years at Hull Crown Court in March 2023 by Judge Kate Rayfield, who instructed her: ‘This is the worst case of controlling and coercive behaviour I’ve seen.’

Now, Mr Spencer is sharing his story in vivid element in Channel 5 documentary My Wife, My Abuser: The Secret Footage, which airs on Monday.

And right now, MailOnline can reveal Sheree went to determined lengths by means of the courts in a bid to cease the documentary being broadcast. 

Sheree tried desperately to cease nanny cam footage of her assaults being broadcast within the documentary, Mailonline can reveal.

Mr Spencer felt the footage ought to be seen to boost consciousness of the kind of abuse males can endure of their every day lives by the hands of violent companions however Sheree tried to dam it.

He instructed Mailonline: ‘Sheree tried to cease the documentary being broadcast within the crown courtroom however failed, then she utilized for a prohibited steps order by means of the household courtroom, which fortunately was rejected and thrown out on the first listening to.

‘The broadcast has been delayed because of the authorized challenges for about six months, however now it’s lastly going to be proven.

‘I’m hopeful that the movie shall be properly acquired and can make a distinction.’

The hidden nanny cam gave a significant approach out for battered husband Mr Spencer after he endured years of bodily and verbal abuse from his spouse, that left him ‘damaged’ on the ground in a foetal place.

Mr Spencer had met his spouse in a nightclub in 2000, and the pair married on a Thai seaside in 2009.

After they welcomed the eldest of their three daughters in 2015, Mr Spencer put in the nanny cam so they may preserve watch over her.

Instead, footage confirmed livid wine-fuelled tirades, wherein Sheree would name her husband ‘fats boy,’ ‘a p**sy’ and ‘dumb dumb’ and inflict bruises and scratches that he would wish to cowl with make-up earlier than going outdoors. 

Mr Spencer instructed The Sun: ‘We had two [cameras] — one within the playroom and one within the bed room. They had been there for reassurance, to maintain an eye fixed out as a result of it is a huge home.

‘It was on one thing like a 28-day roll, the place if one thing new got here in it will delete the outdated footage.’

When police lastly grew to become concerned, Mr Spencer handed over 43 photos of his bruised face, taken on totally different dates following savage assaults he had suffered. 

A police officer tells the documentary: ‘This has been happening for such a very long time, that that is who he’s. Withdrawn and damaged.’

Mr Spencer says: ‘I simply needed the abuse to cease. I used to be in a state of affairs and there was no approach out.’

Hull Crown Court heard that mother-of-three Sheree had carried out many of the assaults on her husband within the household residence.

Sheree labored on the highest ranges for HM Prison and Probation Service and bragged to mates that she had the ear of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

She was a mission supervisor within the division’s directorate of technique and efficiency.

A former pal stated: ‘She would brag about being solely two down from the Prime Minister in her subject and had conferences with Boris Johnson, who she spoke of as if he had been a pal.

‘She was bragging about her excessive flying profession whereas subjecting her poor husband, a beautiful man, to every day abuse, degradation and humiliation.’

It was described as ‘an important irony’ that Spencer had completed a lot work aimed toward investigating the impact of custodial sentences on the household.

Within months of turning into a pair in 2000, Richard Spencer endured her violent rages, which occurred whether or not she was drunk or sober.

The worst of the assaults on him occurred in April 2021 when his spouse attacked him with the empty wine bottle.

Mr Spencer, who stands at 5ft 10in, instructed the courtroom that though he was larger and bodily stronger than his petite spouse, he didn’t struggle again when she started to assault him.

He stated he grew to become nearly resistant to the bodily abuse she meted out, although she would trigger him immense ache by sinking her tooth into him.

But he stated the psychological scars left by 16 years of her hate-filled assaults had been what would go away essentially the most lasting impact.

Sheree’s reign of home terror lastly resulted in June 2021 when the police had been known as to their household residence by a involved welfare employee.

Her arrest that day on suspicion of assaulting her husband opened a door into the hell he had saved non-public for his complete married life.  

Mr Spencer stated: ‘In making an attempt to dam the footage being proven, she continued making an attempt to exert management even from jail, however luckily justice prevailed.

‘It’s astonishing to me that she’s dwelling a comparatively simple life in jail, having been moved to an open jail after six months of her sentence.

‘The choose in her case described it because the worst case or coercive management she had ever seen, so why she was thought-about for open jail so early is past me.

‘She is due for launch subsequent February however she is ready to exit for household and pal conferences and has been working in a restaurant.

‘It doesn’t appear a simply sentence for somebody who dedicated such critical offences.’

Since his ex-wife’s imprisonment, Mr Spencer has joined a marketing campaign known as ManKind Initiative, which helps male victims of home abuse.

He has additionally discovered love once more and instructed media he’s fortunately settled together with his new accomplice. 

Speaking to media after Sheree was jailed final 12 months, he stated: ‘I’ve turn into resigned to the truth that I’ll by no means absolutely recuperate from her abuse and that it’ll have a everlasting damaging influence on mine and my household’s life.

‘Sheree’s abuse in the direction of me advanced and escalated over time, she used repeated acts of bodily assault, threats, verbal abuse, and humiliation to punish and train management over me.

‘The abuse was hidden from the skin world, together with family and friends. Sheree manipulated me into believing that I used to be a accountable and prepared participant within the abuse. She remorselessly proclaimed that I deserved to be punished, and that it was a justifiable consequence of me disappointing her in a roundabout way.

‘Little by little, I misplaced my independence and willpower and simply accepted that was how my life was going to be. I complied with Sheree’s calls for, and she or he managed most features of my on a regular basis life, together with issues like what actions I might take part in and when, which room I might sleep in, and even which bathroom I might use.

‘Gradually I grew to become remoted from household and mates and was left deep in debt inflicting me to really feel trapped.’

‘After some time, I learnt to cowl my face with my arms and curl up right into a foetal place to attempt to keep away from sustaining any seen facial accidents, in order that I might nonetheless take the kids to high school and nursery.’