A MOTHER and stepfather who locked their eight-year-old daughter in her “revolting and squalid” bedroom for 12 hours every night for four weeks were yesterday each jailed for a year.

The mother and step-father of an eight-year-old girl found hanged in her bedroom were today charged with child neglect, police England said.

The mother and stepfather of an eight-year-old girl found hanged in her bedroom were on bail today after being arrested by English police.

THE heir to the Danish throne is to marry an Australian, the royal palace in Copenhagen announced yesterday.