When Lauren Roth woke to the sound of her daughter, Arabella, four, crying, she rushed in to her bedroom to check on her.
Arabella ran straight into her mum’s arms and, with a terrified look on her face, told her that a cat had scratched her.
The family didn’t own a cat, but when Lauren checked, there were marks all over Arabella’s body. She put it down to Arabella accidentally scratching herself during a nightmare and believing in her sleepy confusion that it was a cat and tucked her daughter back into bed.
But it was just the beginning of seven months of hell for Lauren, 30, her husband, Stephen, 24, her son, Caleb, eight, and Arabella, as they soon endured more evil goings-on in their “dream house” in Middlesbrough,…
