LIANNE GEORGE dreads the day she has to tell her five-year-old daughter, Kayleigh-May, how her father died.

After father Dorian Foxwell, 32, of Treowen, died of a massive heroin overdose, his body was treated "like some rubbish" by two of his friends.

Thomas Chapman, 35, and Katie Jones, 29, covered the body with a sheet, put it behind a sofa for days and then trundled it up a Newport street in a wheelie bin - before dumping it "unceremoniously" in a farm gateway in Marshfield.

Yesterday, Chapman was jailed for three years and Jones was jailed for two years for obstructing a coroner and being concerned in the supply of heroin.

But Mr Foxwell's partner, Lianne George, 32, today brands them "a pair of disgusting individuals with no morals or scruples whatsoever".

After the discovery of Mr Foxwell's body, police initially launched a murder inquiry. How do I tell her about her dad?

Ms George says: "I was the first person the police picked up and I had my name in the paper with murder written underneath it.

"They knew what they'd done and they were quite happy for me to go to prison leaving my daughter without a mother."

Police later changed the nature of their investigation after it became clear that Mr Foxwell, 32, died from a heroin overdose in Chapman's Newport flat.

Ms George says: "My daughter doesn't really know what happened. As far as she's concerned her daddy went to sleep. But I suppose when she's older I'll have to tell her about it."

And Mr Foxwell's mother Doniela says: "They should have had five or six years at least."