squalor

The family had been living in squalor, surrounded by rubbish and human excrement, before the tragedy, the trial had heard.

“It’s not compassionate to let people live in squalor just because they want to,” he said.

Victim A, who was in his fifties, was kept in squalor by the Rooney family on a travellers’ site in Lincolnshire, while they lived a life of luxury.

Kamungo isn’t the first soccer standout, or even the first potential Olympian, to emerge from the monotony, squalor and desperation of a refugee camp.

The woman whose keen eyes once watched over her family in the squalor of the squatter camps now lives in a world of darkness and sounds.