A damning report says safeguarding agencies failed a vulnerable woman who was starved to death by her mother after years of neglect.
Elaine Clarke is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence for causing the death of her daughter Debbie Leitch, 24, who had Down's Syndrome. Clarke starved her daughter whose emancipated body was found in a filthy bedroom covered in takeaway boxes and used nappies at their home in Blackpool in August 2019.
Clarke, who had previously lived in Leeds with her family, later admitted manslaughter at Preston Crown Court and was locked up for nine years and seven months. A safeguarding review has now identified a catalogue of failures and found that agencies let Debbie down as they were "not always aware" of the neglect that she was suffering.
