3 year old Tiffany Wright had been dead for 2 or 3 days before her mother called the police in the early hours of Sunday 30th September. Her mother had not checked on her or fed her since 7am on Friday. Police and paramedics found the little girl in a filthy bed in a beetle-infested room, her body covered in insect bites 'looking like a porcelain doll with sunken eyes'. The room, where the family dogs were kept, was full of excrement and urine. The stench was unbearable, even for experienced staff used to finding filthy homes. In the bedroom next door a baby screamed, purple with panic, naked in his dishevelled cot.
While Tiffany lay dying without food or wate, in the living quaters of their pub, CCTV footage showed her mother, who was 8 months pregnant, cleaning the bar while saying to no one in particular, "I have to get my daughter up. I've not seen her for a week." The next day, she was seen leaving the pub alone to go shopping at Tesco for an hour. There was also no sign of the children when Sabrina and her husband, Rob left the pub to visit friends for two hours on Saturday morning, or that afternoon when they went shopping and came back an hour later with bags of dog food. Later, Sabrina was taped talking about buying vitamin supplements for her staffie, which had been losing weight.
Detective chief inspector Dave Powell got to work. "The crime scene was everything in this case," he said, "and it was the worst thing I have witnessed in more than 100 murders." Heavy locks were on the internal doors leading from the bar to the living quarters, but this was not a high crime area – the Hirsts had put them there to keep casual visitors at bay. The locks, Powell thought, suggested premeditation. Climbing the stairs, he had stepped over soiled nappies flung into empty catering boxes of Walkers crisps. Dog excrement had been trampled all over the flat. In Tiffany's bedroom a stained pillow bore the indent from her head. "Where were the sheets? There was no duvet, no toys, only a small pair of well-worn, pink and white Adidas trainers." Tiffany appeared to have clutched them as she lay dying.Behind one of several stained mattresses that stood upended in the room, Powell found unopened Christmas presents addressed to Tiffany from the previous year. A dirty pair of orange curtains hung off the runners. He glanced out of the window and noticed the local GP practice and health centre across the road. He turned back to the child's bed to stare at hundreds of pieces of lilac wallpaper, scattered around it like discarded confetti. Tiffany was so starving that she had torn it from the wall to eat it.
The judge said it was 'about as bad a case of child manslaughter as there can be'. He told Sabrina Hirst: 'One almost unbelievable piece of evidence is that on what was probably Tiffany's last day alive, you were discussing on the phone concerns you had about one of your dog's weight and feeding problems.
A midwife had asked social services to look into Tiffany Wright's case 11 months before her death but the department merely sent a letter to the three-year-old's mother - which was ignored. No-one visited the home and social services in Sheffield then dropped the case after just three days.
Tiffany's mother was sentenced to 12 years for manslaugher and child cruelty, of which she will only serve half. Her stepfather was sentenced to 5 years for cruelty.
Killer mother more worried about dog
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/7478084.stm
here's what the monster's look like
Mother jailed over child's death
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7477878.stm
Tiffany's FaceBook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25073091971
R.I.P tiffany
people like these do not deserve children,worried about you're dog's weight over not feeding you're children is just wrong!