Live updates as parents who caused death of 23 stone disabled daughter are sentenced

The parents who caused the death of their disabled daughter through their negligence and neglect are being sentenced today.

When paramedics found the body of Kaylea Titford at the family home in Powys the teenager weighed almost 23 stone and she was lying in soiled clothing and bedding on a mattress crawling with maggots and flies. The 16-year-old's hair was dirty and matted, and her body was unwashed and her skin was ulcerated. Police officers noted an "unbearable" rotting smell in the room.

Kaylea's mother, 40-year-old Sarah Lloyd-Jones, admitted manslaughter by gross negligence but her father Alun Titford denied the offence saying his partner had been responsible for looking after their daughter. Titford, aged 45, was convicted at Mold Crown Court following a two-and-a-half week trial during which jurors were shown harrowing pictures of the conditions Kaylea lived in.

Kaylea had spina bifida and hydrocephalus - a build up of fluid on the brain - and used a wheelchair from a young age. She attended Newtown High School where she was described as "funny and chatty" by staff, but became confined to her home after the coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.

At Titford's trial, prosecution counsel Caroline Rees KC said the teenager had been living in "squalor and degradation" and that when paramedics found her dead she was lying on filthy "puppy pads", with maggots and flies on her body and milk bottles filled with urine around the bed. She said: "Kaylea Titford was living in conditions unfit for any animal, let alone a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who depended entirely on others for her care." Lloyd-Jones and Titford, of Newtown, Powys, are to be sentenced today at Swansea Crown Court.

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