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| Mother jailed over child's death | Mother jailed over child's death |
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| A woman whose daughter died of malnutrition in "filth and squalor" has been jailed for 12 years. | A woman whose daughter died of malnutrition in "filth and squalor" has been jailed for 12 years. |
| Three-year-old Tiffany Wright had been entirely neglected by her parents in the pub they ran in Sheffield last year, the city's crown court heard. | Three-year-old Tiffany Wright had been entirely neglected by her parents in the pub they ran in Sheffield last year, the city's crown court heard. |
| Sabrina Hirst, 22, was jailed after admitting manslaughter and her husband Robert Hirst, 44, was jailed for five years for child cruelty. | Sabrina Hirst, 22, was jailed after admitting manslaughter and her husband Robert Hirst, 44, was jailed for five years for child cruelty. |
| The court heard Tiffany's body was found in an insect-infested room. | |
| The jury was told she was found in the Scarbrough Arms pub in Upperthorpe, Sheffield, in September last year. | |
| A pathologist said the child had been dead for between two or three days. | |
| Judge Alan Goldsack described the case as "about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be." | |
| Post-mortem tests showed she had not eaten or drunk anything for at least 20 hours. |