Inside ‘house of horrors’ where pet owner let cats and hamster starve to death

The cats were bolted inside a room, away from the two boxes of cat food (Picture: RSPCA)

A woman who left her pets to starve to death after moving to another house less than two miles away kept her home in a horrific condition, photos have revealed.

The decomposing remains of two cats and a hamster were found at Christine Overton’s property in Seghill, Northumberland.

The cats had been unable to reach two large boxes of cat food, and a vet estimated that they had been dead for at least three months.