Channel 5's My Wife, My Abuser: Sheree Spencer job, crimes and how she was brought down

Sheree Spencer subjected her husband to 20 years of horrific abuse - but was only caught when her shocking actions were laid bare in footage from a nanny cam. Violent and abusive Spencer sadistically assaulted and humiliated her husband Richard during her campaign of terror.

Mr Spencer later handed over 43 photographs of injuries, 36 video clips and nine mobile phone recordings to the police. In February last year, Spencer was jailed for four years after admitting coercive and controlling behaviour.

The case is being examined in Channel 5 documentary My Wife The Abuser: The Secret Footage, with footage from the camera being released publicly for the first time. Read on to find out more about Spencer, her job and how police brought her to justice.

A court head how the Spencers had been together since 2000 and lived in a seven bedroom house in a village near York. They had three young children and appeared to be a picture-perfect family of five. But behind closed doors Sheree regularly assaulted her husband - kicking, punching, hitting, biting and spitting at him and hurling insults at him.

Richard said the attacks started shortly after their relationship began, escalating over the years. He said it started with pushing and shoving, with his wife saying that all couples have arguments.

In one attack, she hit her husband with a wine bottle, leaving him disfigured with a "cauliflower ear". And along with physical violence she damaged his property, including laptops, phones, clothes and household items.

Spencer would also control him financially and made him take loans out to pay for holidays. He said she would refuse to pay for her share of bills in an attempt to "punish" him.

Sheree Spencer worked for the Ministry of