Boy, 9, died after police worker ‘deliberately mistreated’ him in bedroom of horrors

Catherine Walker was jailed for six years after the boy was discovered unresponsive in his room

A woman living in relative luxury had a dark secret hiding in her home on the outskirts of Sherwood Forest.

Behind a bedroom door only lockable from the outside, a nine-year-old boy was slowly dying in destitution.

Catherine Walker, 47, had become his legal guardian but his room was left in squalor, a stark contrast to the rest of her comfortable house in Warsop, a parish in Nottinghamshire.

There were no curtains in his window, an electric socket was left hanging dangerously off the wall and he had no radiator.

He was found unresponsive in the room on the morning of 16 December 20...