Jurors have been proven footage of the “revolting” bed room the place an overweight teenager was discovered useless.
Kaylea Titford, 16, weighed 22st and 13Ibs, with a physique mass index of 70, when she died in October 2020 at her house in Powys, Wales, the place she was discovered mendacity in dirty clothes and mattress linen.
Her father Alun Titford, 45, denies manslaughter by gross negligence and is standing trial at Mold Crown Court.
On Friday, the jury was proven pictures and body-worn footage of Kaylea’s residing circumstances, with the prosecution describing them as “squalor and degradation”.
The photographs – which the defence conceded have been “revolting” and “horrific” – reveal how the disabled teenager, who had spina bifida and was wheelchair-bound, was compelled to lie in dirty clothes and mattress linen.
The courtroom was earlier instructed that police described an “unbearable” rotting scent and maggots and flies on her physique.
Pictures launched on Friday confirmed larvae and puparia on {the teenager}’s bedding and fly grime on a hoist used to raise her.
The bed room was additionally seen to be filled with litter and particles, together with cooking gear and piles of clothes.
The circumstances have been beforehand described by prosecutor Caroline Rees as “unfit for any animal”.
Larvae and puparia present in Kaylea’s mattress garments
Kaylea, who depended totally on others for her care, was discovered mendacity on filthy “puppy pads” and had not been washed for weeks, jurors have been instructed.
She had soiled and matted hair and ulcerated pores and skin, together with strain sores on her legs.
Defending Alun Titford, David Elias KC instructed the jury to “divorce” themselves from the “graphic nature” of the pictures.
“The horror at the end of the case is not the benchmark necessarily for guilt or innocence.
“It is revolting, it’s horrific, there is no such thing as a dispute about it, however you must take a look at the way it obtained to that time.”
Fly grime seen on the hoist used to raise Kaylea
Kaylea’s bed room
Kaylea and her household have been “let down” by well being and social companies, Mr Elias mentioned in his closing speech.
“Not every family who is let down ends up in the situation we have seen, thank heavens, but it is important evidence, we submit, in the context of this defendant’s behaviour.”
Kaylea was discharged from physiotherapy in 2017 and a 12 months later was discharged from a dietetics service as a result of her mom, Sarah Lloyd-Jones, did not make a brand new appointment.
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In April 2017, a social employee agreed with Ms Lloyd-Jones that there was no function for the crew specialising in kids with disabilities, the courtroom heard.
Ms Lloyd-Jones, who has six kids with Titford, has pleaded responsible to manslaughter by gross negligence, the jury have been instructed.
She was answerable for most of Kaylea’s care when she reached puberty, with Titford stepping again as a result of he wasn’t “comfortable”.
Kaylea Titford had spina bifada
Titford, a elimination employee, labored as much as 50 hours every week and 15 days straight earlier than Kaylea died.
Mr Elias mentioned: “Here is a defendant who was working throughout, who we say quite rightly because he was entitled to, because of everything that she had done so well, truly believed until the day Kaylea was found that Sarah Lloyd-Jones was doing the right thing, was giving the right treatment, and didn’t know that she wasn’t.”
Alun Titford pictured arriving at Mold Crown Court in Flintshire, North Wales
He mentioned it was “reasonable” for Titford to consider his associate was taking care of Kaylea and coping with the hazard of the strain sores on her legs.
“It was Sarah who was dealing with that, and that’s not passing the buck, that’s what was happening.”
Titford, of Colwyn, Newtown in Powys, additionally denies an alternate rely of inflicting or permitting the demise of a kid.
The trial has been adjourned to Monday when Judge Martin Griffiths will sum up the case and the jury is predicted to start deliberating.
Source: information.sky.com”
