A wife used her disabled husband as a “cash cow” while she had an affair with his carer and spent his money on DJ equipment and lingerie, a court was told.
Over a 10 year period, Sarah Somerset-How and carer George Webb allegedly “enslaved” her husband Tom, confining him to his bed, as they spent his money while treating him “like a piece of property”.
The 40-year-old, an “intelligent” history graduate with cerebral palsy, was left as a “prisoner in his own home”, a jury was told.
The pair allegedly left wheelchair-bound Mr Somerset How – who is almost blind and needs 24-hour care – in bed for 90 per cent of the time, allowed him a shower once a week and went for a whole year without brushing his teeth.
For food he would be left with only a packet of crisps and a sandwich, the court heard, while the pair carried out their plan to “ostracise” him from his family.
The jury was told that Mr Somerset-How eventually managed to raise the alarm about his treatment with a friend who alerted his parents.
They then staged a rescue with police and social services, “an operation that had the marks of extracting someone as a hostage”, the court heard.
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