settee

"You might as well just sit on a settee cushion and hope for the best."

The last time she had seen him, her "perfect little boy" and Robbie had been asleep on the living room settee.

"We've had it all - beds, settees, cabinets - everything," Mr Davies added.

David's lounge is a riot of colour – on the floor of his living room are porcelain figurines, hundreds of yellowed newspapers and, balanced across the back of his settee, several thousand Barbie dolls.

"She was just lying on the the settee. It was a very empty room. Her life was completely impoverished," she said.