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Sam Elliott-Gibbs

Cruel dad who left five kids in squalid house of horror had boasted of changing lives

A dad sent to prison after five children under 12 were found to be living in "squalor" in his vile, smelly home previously spoke of his dedication to changing the lives of young people.

Lee Carnell, 32, and his ex-girlfriend Sarah Lamb, 33, both admitted to a string of child cruelty offences which involved five children, four girls and a boy after authorities exposed a house of horrors in a 2019 raid when the alarm was raised.

They were stunned to find human excrement smeared on walls next to toothbrushes, dirty nappies everywhere, a foul smell and and a plague of flies.

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