Disabled teenager found dead in bedroom 'lived in squalor and degradation'

New pictures from the bedroom in which a 22-stone teenager died have revealed the squalor and degradation” she lived in.

- ELEANOR NOYCE

Alun Titford, 45, is accused of manslaughter by gross negligence of his disabled 16-year-old daughter Kaylea, who was found dead at home in Newton in October 2020 lying in soiled clothing and bed linen. Kaylea's mother Sarah Lloyd-Jones, who has six children with Titford, has pleaded guilty to the offence.

Pictures shown to the jury at Mold Crown Court on Friday revealed what the prosecution described as the "squalor" Kaylea - who had spina bifida and used a wheelchair - lived in before she died. One image showed a stained mattress in Kaylea's cluttered bedroom, while another pictured a hoist used by the teenager covered in fly dirt. Puparia was pictured on the floor of the home in a third image. The jury was also shown images of a stained bedsheet and larvae on bedclothes.