A woman who abandoned her “vulnerable” daughter to die alone in pain in her squalid bedroom has been jailed for nine years and seven months.
The emaciated body of Debbie Leitch, 24, who was born with Down syndrome, was discovered at her family home in Blackpool, Lancashire, in August 2019.
The scene that greeted emergency services was “truly shocking” as her face was “completely encrusted with scabs and thickened skin, such that she was no longer recognisable as being a young female”, Preston Crown Court heard.
