The woman was allegedly burnt with an iron and had cigarettes stubbed out on her back while held against her will by three defendants

Female police informant 'tortured, beaten and raped after being outed as "a grass"'

The woman was allegedly burnt with an iron and had cigarettes stubbed out on her back while held against her will by three defendant

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Ordeal: The woman was tortured and raped

A female police informant was brutally tortured, beaten and raped after being identified as a “grass”, a court heard.
The woman was subjected to a “sustained” campaign of violence at the hands of three defendants, a jury was told.
Claire Dooley, 37, Esther Graham, 28, both of Garston, Liverpool, and Daniel Spencer, 26, of no fixed address, all deny a charge of false imprisonment and unlawful wounding, the Liverpool Echo reported .
Simon Christie, prosecuting, told the jury at Liverpool Crown Court that the reason for the abuse and violence was “a compelling one”.
He said: “She was working covertly for the police, she was informing.
“In short, she was committing what is for many the most cardinal sin - she was being ‘a grass’.”