UK: Mother jailed for 12 years for girl's neglect death

A mother who left her three-year-old daughter to die from malnutrition in her bedroom and did not find her body until two days after her death was jailed for 12 years today.

Tiffany Wright died in “squalor, filth and degradation” when she was “entirely neglected” by her parents at the pub they ran in Sheffield last year.

Today at Sheffield Crown Court, Sabrina Hirst, aged 22, was jailed for 12 years after previously admitting manslaughter.

Her husband, Robert Hirst, aged 44, was jailed for five years after admitting child cruelty.

The Recorder of Sheffield, Judge Alan Goldsack QC, described the case as “about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be”.