Rubin Blount, 28, was sent to live with Melanie James, 63, and her partner Kenneth Newton, 57, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, by social workers, jurors heard.

Rubin Blount, 28, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, resembled a 'walking skeleton' in the weeks before his death and was seen scavenging for food in bins, it is claimed.

The man was in the care of 'devious and deceitful' couple who left him looking like a 'walking skeleton' with nearly 50 rib fractures at the time of his death