‘Selfish’ pensioner, 67, whose dying 61-year-old wife was found covered in MAGGOTS and flies while surrounded by festering rubbish is jailed for eight years for gross neglect manslaughter

Richard Wallach neglected wife Valerie and left her house-bound in an armchair

‘Selfish’ pensioner, 67, whose dying 61-year-old wife was found covered in MAGGOTS and flies while surrounded by festering rubbish is jailed for eight years for gross neglect manslaughter

  • Richard Wallach neglected wife Valerie and left her house-bound in an armchair
  • The husband ‘hoarded’ items and allowed rubbish to build up in their home 
  • Firefighters discovered wife covered in faeces and maggots surrounded by rotting food and rubbish
  • Taken to hospital but died 19 days later from multiple organ failure and cancer 
  • Liverpool Crown Court jury found Wallach guilty of gross neglect manslaughter

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7559595/Selfish-pensioner-67-jailed-eight-years-gross-neglect-manslaughter.html

 

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