Volunteers divers found the body of a missing dad in less than an hour after a police search that lasted for five weeks.
25.01.2024 - 07:45 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A disabled man was left "trapped in his bedroom for five years" due to care failings, a report has revealed.
The man, aged in his 50s, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2003 and also has diabetes, but is now in a care home for dementia patients after his health deteriorated. Mr E, as he has been named in the report, once enjoyed trawling record shops and visiting cafes and libraries.
However, he is now blind and bed bound after receiving no treatment for his mental or physical health between the summer of 2017 and 2020. The report by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland found that he also needs 24-hour care and says he has "no quality of life".
A hospital in England raised "safeguarding concerns" in 2015 about Mr E's brother who was his "main carer", the commission found, but it took seven years before the local authority obtained guardianship.
Concerns were raised about the "controlling" and "confrontational" sibling as long ago as 2007, and a report said in 2015 that concerns had been raised his brother was "covertly medicating" Mr E. The same brother of Mr E asked for a probe into how he "ended up a prisoner in his bedroom for five years", the report said.
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Volunteers divers found the body of a missing dad in less than an hour after a police search that lasted for five weeks.
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