Fetid bedclothes, piled high rubbish and make-shift drugs paraphernalia are some of the bleak features of a horror home where a young boy was left to die.
Laura Heath would kick her son out of the bed and make him sleep on the sofa so she could romp with strangers for cash to feed her heroin habit.
The evil mum admitted child cruelty and was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter last week after jurors heard how Hakeem Hussain was found dead in the back garden in Nechells, Birmingham.