It should have been a refuge. Instead, evil foster mother Eunice Spry's Gloucestershire home became a prison where, over the course of 20 years, vulnerable children were routinely abused and tortured. To the outside world, Jehova's Witness Spry presented herself as a pillar of the community. Behind closed doors she was a sadistic tyrant who beat the children in her care with sticks and metal bars, scrubbed their skin with sandpaper and forced them to eat lard, bleach, vomit and faeces.