Blackpool social services under investigation after disabled woman is starved to death by her mother

Deborah Leitch, 24, who had Down's Syndrome, was dead found at her family home on Garden Terrace, South Shore, on August 29, 2019. A post-mortem found she died from severe emaciation following a long period of neglect, and a severe scabies skin infection.

Her mother Elaine Clarke, 49, pleaded guilty to her manslaughter at Preston Crown Court on Friday, January 21.