Georgia Davis: 'What kind of support was she getting

Wales? Whales.

Georgia Davis, "Britain's biggest teen", is in hospital today in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, being treated for major organ failure. In an eight-hour operation involving 40 social services staff, police, firemen, ambulance crew, builders and scaffolders, she had to be cut out of the bedroom to which she has reportedly been confined for the past several months, lifted by crane on to a ramp erected for the purpose, and wheeled on a specially strengthened stretcher to a reinforced ambulance.

Her weight has not formally been made public, but friends and neighbours have said it has "rocketed" since last August, when the 5ft 6in, 19-year-old student was weighed at 45st. Some apparently told reporters it could have increased to as much as 63st. How does someone get into such a condition – and is there a way back?

You get there from parental and societal neglect.

Nutritional child abuse.

Plain and simple.