Couple jailed for torture of ‘Kids of the Dungeon’

An elderly couple who locked five children up in a basement ‘dungeon’ during three decades of ‘abuse, neglect and cruelty’ have been jailed for a total of 21 years. Valerie Stannard, 73, held a boy’s hands over a stove flame and stuffed lit paper down a boy’s pyjamas while husband Roy, 74, punched a youngster ‘as if he was punching a man.’ The children were thrashed with a bamboo cane or belt and lived most of their lives in the…