Mother spends £12,000 of taxpayers' money to send her obese daughter, 13, to a fat camp after her weight ballooned to 13 stone

Beverley Deakin (inset), of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, took the drastic action after discovering Destiny weighed 13 stone aged just 13. 



After pleading with her local council to help, she was given public funding for two £6,000 stints at a so-called 'fat camp'. Destiny (pictured, left, aged 11 and, right, now 15) attended the six-week weight loss programme for two summers and managed to shed a total of two stone.