EVIL foster mother Eunice Spry is trying to get her 14-year

jail sentence cut.

Cruel Spry was jailed in April last year in one of the worst

cases of child abuse ever seen in the UK.

The 63-year-old tortured and beat her three foster children

as part of a shocking catalogue of abuse over 20 years.

She was convicted on 24 counts of what a judge called

“sadistic torture”.

The devout Jehovah's Witness forced sticks down her

children's throats, made them swallow bleach and washing up

liquid and told them to eat their vomit and rat droppings.

She deprived them of sleep and kept one of her children in a

wheelchair for years, even though she could walk.

Now the Court of Appeal in London has received an appeal

from the twice-divorced pensioner against the length of her

sentence.

Yesterday, her victims spoke of their anger at the

appeal.

Christopher Spry said: “Right now, I'm very hurt. She has

never apologised or opened up about doing any of this and

that's the most hurtful thing.

“And now she's trying to get time off her sentence and

that's very upsetting.

“I was talking to one of the other victims and she was angry

that she should be allowed to appeal at all.”

Christopher, 19, said she had never shown any remorse for

her actions.

He said: “The last time I saw her was when she was in

court.

“I caught her eye for the last 10 seconds before she was

taken down and she was just smirking. This feels like she's

just smirking in our faces again.

“It's a massive kick in the teeth – we want the chance now

to try and get on with our lives.”

As Spry is appealing against her sentence, and not her

conviction, the evidence given at her trial doesn't need to be

re-examined and Christopher and other witnesses are not

expected to have to appear in court.

Christopher's parents Paul, 47 and Carmel, 42, said the

appeal is outrageous.

Carmel said: “She can't argue against the evidence, so I

think the only thing she can be appealing on is her age.

“It's terrible that she should even be trying this appeal,

she's damaged the lives of three children.”

Paul said: “This will bring it all back up for everyone all

over again. Although the children are okay now, they'll never

get that time back. She wasn't given a long enough

sentence.”

At her trial for cruelty in March 2007, Spry was found

guilty on 24 charges, including child cruelty, assault,

wounding an witness intimidation, which she continued to deny

throughout the trial.

Spry, who lived at George Dowty Drive, Northway, Tewkesbury,

cut one child's hand open with a jagged tin lid and beat the

others, stepping on their throats if they cried out.

The children were also beaten on the soles of their feet,

had sandpaper rubbed in their faces and Christopher had his

hand put in the flame of a gas cooker as a punishment.

The years of abuse came to light when one of the three

foster children, known as Child A in the trial, spoke to

members of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Tewkesbury about her

bruises and reported her foster mother to the police.

Social Services were criticised for missing the abuse, even

though they visited her house.

Gloucestershire County Council apologised to the children

for the shortcomings which allowed Spry to get away with years

of abuse.

Spry is represented by David Campbell of Sansbury Campbell

solicitors in Bristol.

He said: “I can't tell you the grounds for the appeal. I

have no instructions to give you that information.”

The appeal will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, in

London. No date has been set.

In any appeal against a sentence it is possible for the new

sentence to be increased as well as reduced.