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A father has been found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of his 16-year-old disabled daughter.
At Mold Crown Court today, Alun Titford, 45, was found guilty of the manslaughter by gross negligence of his 16-year-old daughter Kaylea, who was morbidly obese when she was found dead at the family home in Newtown, Powys, in October 2020.
Kaylea was found in conditions described as 'unfit for any animal', in soiled clothing and bed linen and weighed 22st 13lb, with a BMI of 70, at the time of her death, a trial heard.
Kaylea's mother, Sarah Lloyd-Jones, 39, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by gross negligence last year but her father, Alun Titford, denied the offence along with an alternative charge of causing or allowing the death of a child.
When asked during his evidence why he had let his daughter down so badly, the removals worker said: "I'm lazy."
The court heard that Kaylea, who had spina bifida and used a wheelchair, died after suffering inflammation and infection from ulceration, arising from obesity and immobility.
Emergency service workers, who were called to the house after she was found on
