The so-called UB meridian runs on exactly the same path as a line of facia (see anatomy trains) that streaches from thelittletoe up the back and neck around to attach thethe forehead.
Jurors heard that during the first few days of her being held in the attic of the flat, Ms Spence told the witness that Coats had cut off the tip of her pinkie finger and crushed her littletoe with loppers, which Mr Wade had brought with him in a bag.
The extent of the delay indicated the viscosity of the fluid, and toe-pad mucus was found to be little more than one-and-a-half times as viscous as water.
It is claimed they cut off her thumb, crushed her toe, burned her with an iron, severed the tip of her little finger and beat her with a golf club to extract financial information from her.