Parents jailed after three young boys found living among faeces and rotting food

Three children were found living in the flat with piles of rubbish

These shocking pictures show the ‘horrendous mess’ inside a flat where three vulnerable young boys were rescued by police.


Images of the ‘filthy’ Grimsby property were released after the parents of the children were jailed.
Matthew Cartwright, 39, and Marla Everett, 32, both admitted three offences of cruelty to the boys, all aged three or under, at Grimsby crown court.

Matthew Cartwright and Marla Everett were jailed for child neglect

Police said the boys were living in squalor, surrounded by rotting food, faeces, rubbish and empty beer cars.
Officers were called to the flat after a concerned member of the public called 999 when she saw one of the children swinging his legs through the metal bars of the third-floor flat’s balcony, the Grimsby Telegraph reports.

Rotting food littered the flat

PC Peter Mills, who was greeted by an overwhelming stench of excrement after forcing his way into the property, said the flat was one of the worst he had seen where children had been living.
‘The whole place was in an horrendous mess,’ said prosecutor Jayne Beckett.

‘There was rubbish, faeces, used nappies and soiled wipes on the floor. There were disused takeaway packages, empty beer cans, bottles and cigarette ends all over.

‘PC Mills had to walk through the debris to get to the patio but he did so and rescued the boy, to applause from below.’
‘The smell in the room was almost unbearable.’

The ‘horrendous mess’ inside the flat

 

Cartwright, who had drunk eight to ten pints of lager when police arrived, was jailed for 15 months and Everett for a year.

The boys have been taken into foster care.