An evil mum and stepdad who left their starving autistic son just days from death in a locked attic room have been sentenced to prison.
Lorna Hewitt, 43, and husband Craig Hewitt, 42, were found guilty following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court last month and locked up for six years, Yorkshire Live reports.
The sick couple left 22-year-old Matthew Langley to languish in a room covered in rubbish and human faeces, with no access to a toilet or washing facilities for more than seven months.
Medical experts say he was only fed a few hundred calories a day, with food delivered in a box to his room as he was banned from eating with the rest of the family, the jury heard.
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