Parents jailed

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.

Charlotte Avenall accidentally hanged herself on September 12 last year at the home of her mother Susan Moody, 24, and 33-year-old stepfather Simon Moody.

The severely disabled youngster, who had the mental age of a three-year-old, had just learnt to tie a knot at school when she wrapped a cord on her bedroom window around her neck.