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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Helen Pidd

Father should have known of obese girl’s plight, manslaughter trial told

Kaylea in her wheelhair
The court heard that before lockdown Kaylea had been able to use a wheelchair, but that when she died it was unusable. Photograph: Athena Pictures

A man has gone on trial accused of manslaughter after his disabled teenage daughter became so obese that she died in “truly horrific circumstances” weighing 146kg (22st 13lbs).

By the time of her death in October 2020, Kaylea Titford, who had spina bifida and hydrocephalus, was “living in conditions unfit for any animal let alone a vulnerable 16-year-old girl who depended entirely on others for her care”, Mold crown court heard.

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