Teenage mum left toddler home alone 12 times before she was found starved to death

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A teenage mum who left her daughter to starve to death while she went away for six days to celebrate her 18th birthday had left the tot alone 11 times before, it is claimed.

Verphy Kudi, now 19, admitted manslaughter at Lewes Crown Court last month after leaving of 20-month-old Asiah home alone in a supported housing block in Brighton.

She had been due to stand trial later this year before formally entered a guilty plea to a charge of manslaughter. The court heard the aspiring model left the tot on her own to party in London, Coventry and Solihull, in the West Midlands, more than 150 miles away.

Kudi was living in Gocher Court which was accommodation for vulnerable families run by a charity commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council.