Parents jailed for keeping children in ‘utter squalor’

A DOCTOR who treated twin babies rescued from a life of “utter squalor” said they were “the worst case of malnutrition he had ever seen outside the developing world”, a court heard yesterday.

A judge was told how police officers who brought five children out of the terraced house in Sheffield in June had difficulty not being physically sick in the excrement-smeared bedrooms and kitchen.

Sheffield Crown Court heard that one of the 12-month-old twin boys was critically ill and close to death.