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The web of lies spun by abusive wife whose husband secretly recorded beating him on nanny cam: Video shows Sheree Spencer casually lying that her husband was the abuser in police interview only for her to be confronted with damning evidence

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Intense footage shows knife-wielding abuser Sheree Spencer denying her hellish treatment of her husband - as she attempted to cast him in the role of villain.

Spencer's attacks on husband Richard at their seven-bedroom home in Bubwith, East Yorkshire, were captured on cameras the couple had installed to monitor their children.

Spencer, 45, was jailed for four years at Hull Crown Court in March last year by Judge Kate Rayfield, who told her: 'This is the worst case of controlling and coercive behaviour I have seen.'

But explosive clips from police interviews after her arrest show Sheree casually lying about her husband being the abuser, only for her face to turn ashen when confronted with full audio footage showing her threaten him. 

The video appears in Channel 5 documentary My Wife, My Abuser: The Secret Footage, which airs on Monday.

During the police interview, a female police officer asks Spencer about the footage obtained from a nanny-cam in their child's room, showing her carrying a knife.

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

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

Damning clips of Sheree Spencer's attacks on husband Richard at their seven-bedroom home in Bubwith, East Yorkshire, were captured on cameras the couple installed to monitor their children

Damning clips of Sheree Spencer's attacks on husband Richard at their seven-bedroom home in Bubwith, East Yorkshire, were captured on cameras the couple installed to monitor their children

Sheree's reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker

Sheree's reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker

Spender responds: 'Yeah it looks like a sharp object'

The police officer says: 'It’s a sharp object, it’s a carving knife. What did you do then?'

Spencer answers: 'I went to push him back.'

The officer presses on: 'You’ve got a knife in your hand, what are you doing pushing him with a knife in yourh and? 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.'

When interviewed by the documentary makers, the officer described Spencer's brazen lies, saying:; She just went into autopilot and she said this 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".

Another officer added: [It was] almost as if she had planned ahead, or if she knew exactly what was going to be referred to. But that all kind of shattered really when I played the video back again but with the audio.'

But Spencer's lying version of events was shattered when officers switched on the audio of the home footage, in which she could clearly be heard threatening her husband while brandishing a knife 

Spencer is heard slurring as she says to her husband: 'Shame, it takes that level of violence.'

The hidden nanny cam gave a vital way out for battered husband Mr Spencer after he endured years of physical and verbal abuse from his wife, that sometimes left him 'broken' in a foetal position

The hidden nanny cam gave a vital way out for battered husband Mr Spencer after he endured years of physical and verbal abuse from his wife, that sometimes left him 'broken' in a foetal position

The couple met in 2000 in a nightclub and married in Thailand in 2009  before having three daughters

The couple met in 2000 in a nightclub and married in Thailand in 2009  before having three daughters

Sheree's reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker

Sheree's reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker

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

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

Today, MailOnline can reveal Sheree went to desperate lengths through the courts in a bid to stop the documentary being broadcast.

The footage, obtained from the nanny-cam, gives a chilling real-life echo of Harlan Coben's Netflix adaptation Fool Me Once, starring Michelle Keegan. In it, Keegan plays a woman who installs the small camera to keep watch over her young daughter, only to recognise an eerie figure from her past creeping into her home.

Mr Spencer 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.'

The hidden nanny cam gave a vital way out for battered husband Mr Spencer after he endured years of physical and verbal abuse from his wife, that left him 'broken' on the floor in a foetal position.

Mr Spencer 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, Mr Spencer installed the nanny cam so they could keep watch over her.

Instead, footage showed furious wine-fuelled tirades, in which Sheree would call her husband 'fat boy,' 'a p**sy' and 'dumb dumb' and inflict bruises and scratches that he would need to cover with make-up before going outside. 

Mr Spencer told The Sun: 'We had two [cameras] — one in the playroom and one in the bedroom. They were there for reassurance, to keep an eye out because it's a big house.

'It was on something like a 28-day roll, where if something new came in it would delete the old footage.'

When police finally became involved, Mr Spencer handed over 43 images of his bruised face, taken on different dates following savage assaults he had suffered. 

Mr Spencer, now happily settled with a new partner, decided to take part in the Channel 5 documentary to help other abused men speak out

Mr Spencer, now happily settled with a new partner, decided to take part in the Channel 5 documentary to help other abused men speak out

One of the selfies Mr Spencer took of the abuse
Another selfie showed a busted lip he suffered from his wife

Mr Spencer handed police 36 photographs he took of himself, showing cuts and bruises to his face and body

Sheree Spencer, 45, 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

Sheree Spencer, 45, 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 the foetal position

Richard Spencer secretly recorded video and audio of his wife's attacks on him for years. When police became involved he handed over 43 images of his bruised face and body

Richard Spencer secretly recorded video and audio of his wife's attacks on him for years. When police became involved he handed over 43 images of his bruised face and body

A police officer tells the documentary: 'This has been going on for such a long time, that this is who he is. Withdrawn and broken.'

Mr Spencer says: 'I just wanted the abuse to stop. I was in a situation and there was no way out.'

Hull Crown Court heard that mother-of-three Sheree had carried out most of the attacks on her husband in the family home.

Sheree 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.

Within months of becoming a couple in 2000, Richard endured her violent rages, which happened whether she was drunk or sober.

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

Mr Spencer, who stands at 5ft 10in, told the court that although he was bigger and physically stronger than his petite wife, he did not fight back when she began to attack him.

He said he became almost immune to the physical abuse she meted out, even though she would cause him immense pain by sinking her teeth into him.

But he said the mental scars left by 16 years of her hate-filled attacks were what would leave the most lasting effect.

Sheree's reign of domestic terror finally ended in June 2021 when the police were called to their family home by a concerned welfare worker.

Her arrest that day on suspicion of assaulting her husband opened a door into the hell he had kept private for his entire married life.  

Mr Spencer said: 'In trying to block the footage being shown, she continued trying to exert control even from jail, but fortunately justice prevailed.

'It’s astonishing to me that she’s living a relatively easy life in prison, having been moved to an open jail after six months of her sentence.

'The judge in her case described it as the worst case of coercive control she had ever seen, so why she was considered for open prison so early is beyond me.

'She is due for release next February but she is able to go out for family and friend meetings and has been working in a cafe.

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

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

Hull Crown Court heard Spencer was a mother of three young children and that many of the attacks on her husband had occurred in the family home

Hull Crown Court heard Spencer was a mother of three young children and that many of the attacks on her husband had occurred in the family home

The court heard that Spencer beat him with the bottle all over his head and body and caused a serious injury to his ear, which swelled dramatically

The court heard that Spencer beat him with the bottle all over his head and body and caused a serious injury to his ear, which swelled dramatically

'It doesn’t seem a just sentence for someone who committed such serious offences.'

Since his ex-wife's imprisonment, Mr Spencer has joined a campaign called ManKind Initiative, which supports male victims of domestic abuse.

He has also found love again and told media he is happily settled with his new partner. 

Speaking to media after Sheree was jailed last year, he said: 'I have become resigned to the fact that I will never fully recover from her abuse and that it will have a permanent damaging impact on mine and my family's life.

'Sheree's abuse towards me evolved and escalated over time, she used repeated acts of physical assault, threats, verbal abuse, and humiliation to punish and exercise control over me.

'The abuse was hidden from the outside world, including friends and family. Sheree manipulated me into believing that I was a responsible and willing participant in the abuse. She remorselessly proclaimed that I deserved to be punished, and that it was a justifiable consequence of me disappointing her in some way.

'Little by little, I lost my independence and willpower and just accepted that was how my life was going to be. I complied with Sheree's demands, and she controlled most aspects of my everyday life, including things like what activities I could participate in and when, which room I could sleep in, and even which toilet I could use.

'Gradually I became isolated from family and friends and was left deep in debt causing me to feel trapped.

'After a while, I learnt to cover my face with my hands and curl up into a foetal position to try and avoid sustaining any visible facial injuries, so that I could still take the children to school and nursery.'

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