Victoria Spry Death | Victoria Spry Obituay – Some sad news.
Working on a story today that I just don't want to think about it is so awful. Victoria (pictured here) was fostered as a kid which has got to be difficult enough for any child. Her terrible luck was to end up with Eunice Spry, to understand evil you just have to know Eunice pic.twitter.com/HPiKAG6P3L
— Jon Mills (@jonmillsphoto) October 1, 2020
, who survived nearly 20 years of abuse at the hands of her foster mother, has died. She was just 32. Her death isn’t being treated as suspicious. She did amazing work to prevent others being abused. I’ll have a tribute to her tonight.
Some sad news. Victoria Spry, who survived nearly 20 years of abuse at the hands of her foster mother, has died. She was just 32. Her death isn’t being treated as suspicious. She did amazing work to prevent others being abused. I’ll have a tribute to her tonight @bbcpointswest pic.twitter.com/mG0W6JP4Ly
— Steve Knibbs (@Knibbsey) September 30, 2020
As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected, and starved by the woman she called Mummy. To the outside world Eunice Spry was a devoted parent, but behind closed doors she was an evil tyrant. Instead of protecting, loving, and caring for Victoria, she forced bleach and urine down her throat, knocked out her teeth, tied her up naked, and made her live in squalor. It took 18 years of heartache and despair before she found the courage to expose her mum. Tortured is Victoria’s gripping story of survival.
Working on a story today that I just don't want to think about it is so awful. Victoria (pictured here) was fostered as a kid which has got to be difficult enough for any child. Her terrible luck was to end up with Eunice Spry, to understand evil you just have to know Eunice pic.twitter.com/HPiKAG6P3L
— Jon Mills (@jonmillsphoto) October 1, 2020
Victoria Spry, 35, was subjected to physical and mental abuse – along with two of her siblings – from foster mother Eunice, who was jailed in 2007.
Spry was found guilty of a range of charges including cruelty and unlawful wounding. She was jailed for 14 years, which was reduced to 12 on appeal.
Victoria later wrote a book about her experiences, called “Tortured”.
At Spry’s trial, her behaviour was described as “horrifying” and “sadistic”.
She was arrested when police raided her home in Tewkesbury in February 2005.
Following Spry’s conviction, Gloucestershire County Council apologised for the “shortcomings” in its care system.
Vital information which could have alerted social workers to the abuse was not shared by the various bodies involved.