'Lazy' daughter, 24, who let her mother rot sitting in her own faeces and urine in the same clothes for a year before she died is jailed with her partner

• Natasha Pammant let her 58-year-old mother waste away in her Leeds home 
• Her partner Liam Leach, 26, has also been jailed after she was found in May 2022

A 'lazy' daughter, 24, who let her mother sit in her own faeces and urine in the same clothes for a year before she died has been jailed alongside her partner.

Natasha Pammant and her partner Liam Leach, 26, let her 'skeletal' 58-year-old mother sit in her Leeds home for an entire year.

The woman's pitiful existence was only discovered when a worried neighbour called social services for help.

When the social worker entered the house she said the smell 'hit her like a sledgehammer', with flies hovering over the woman as she lay slumped in a chair soaked in urine.

An ambulance was called as soon as the paramedics arrived they were asked by the woman if they had any food.

Her jumper was stained with faeces and paramedics had to shower her to get her off the seat before moving her to the ambulance.

The woman also had large pressure ulcers on her body - including one which was 'down to the bone' which could have proved fatal. 

Prosecutor Catherine Silverton told Leeds Crown Court on Friday: 'The woman had mental and physical health difficulties - asthma, COPD, depression, anxiety, self neglect and malnutrition. The police went at the request of the ambulance service in May 2022. A neighbour noted hearing screams from a person and called social services.'

It was said that when a social worker looked through a window at the house, they saw a 'skeletal leg' and 'swollen ankle and foot'. 

Ms Silverton added: 'There was a large amount of flies and fly papers full of flies hanging around the property. She [the woman] was found slumped in a chair. There was faeces and stains on her jumper and the chair was soaked in urine.

'She had been sitting there for three months. Paramedics had to shower her to get her off the seat before moving her to the ambulance. The house smelt so bad those going in found it difficult to breathe...The woman had been wearing the same jumper for a year.'

Ms Silverton added: 'They were consistent with having four months of little or no care. The impact would have been fatal if the neighbours did not contact social services.

'She said the defendants had thrown away her sofa, leading her to go in the chair. She said she gave them her bank card for money but they left her for days. She said she asked Ms Pemmant to clean her for three days prior to police arriving.' 

She also had faeces under her toenails and two cockroaches were found at the property, which had 'no surface free of rubbish', it was said. 

Ms Silverton said Pemmant, of Cartmell Drive, Halton, and Leach, of South Farm Road in Gipton, arrived home and Pemmant told police her mother did not want help.

The prosecutor added: 'A friend of the complainant said she used to visit up until a year before police arrived. She said Ms Pammant used to make her mum wait until 6pm for food and she didn't want to care for her, but did it for the money.'

It was said in her interview, Pammant described 'general difficult coping' and said '95 per cent of the time it was Liam Leach who took her mother to the commode'. 

Ms Silverton added: 'She said her mum did not want medical attention but she accepted she should have called an ambulance. She accepted the state of the house was disgusting.

'Liam Leach blamed the council and doctors for the situation of the woman and described Ms Pammant as lazy.'

Both went on to plead guilty to a charge of cruelty against a person in their care, alongside a second offence.

Mitigating for Leach, Catherine Duffy said his grandmother had passed away on the morning of the sentencing. She said: 'It is not a case where he had responsibility for the woman. This case is a tragic and serious case.'

The court heard Leach now lives alone and had shown a probation worker his garden and new property. Ms Duffy said: 'He is very keen to show the probation service the progress he has made in the garden and how he had managed to keep the house clean and tidy.' Ms Duffy said Leach himself has 'significant vulnerabilities'.

Kristian Cavanagh, for Pammant, said: 'This is a defendant who has struggled with her own adequacy as a result of her poor upbringing. Of course, that inadequacy and lack of maturity - she was 22 at the time of the offending - unites both cases and is an issue in the case...

'She was bullied at school because of her own lack of cleanliness and she suffered as a consequence of that. There was a lack of emotional support from her mum.'

Recorder Alex Menary jailed both Pamment and Leach for 30 months.