Scandal Of Family Living In One Room
This young Ulster family is being forced to live in a single bedroom – because the new home they desperately need has been taken over by squatters.
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Read MoreA woman of 103, served with an eviction notice by her nursing home, has died six weeks after being forced to move out.
{mosimage}Esme Collins couldn’t cope with the upheaval of moving to a new care home and ‘seemed to give up,’ her daughter said.
Both relatives and campaigners feared such a tragic outcome when Mrs Collins was originally threatened with eviction in a row with the local authority over funding in July, but efforts to keep her at the home she has lived in for eight years were thwarted by the owner.
Her daughter Esme Simpson, 84, of Worksop, Notts, admitted she was ‘bitter’ about her mother’s treatment.
She said: “How can you explain to a 103-year-old that she was being evicted over money? She didn’t deserve the awful indignity of being used as a weapon in a financial row.
“The whole experience has left me very bitter.”
Mrs Collins was transferred on 9 August from Abbeymoor nursing home in Worksop to Barnby Court in Retford 10 miles away. She is understood to have died about 10 days ago.
Mrs Simpson, who attended her mother’s funeral yesterday, said: “I have been 100 per cent grateful to the people at Barnby Court for the care and love they showed her. But not being around the Abbeymoor staff, who had been her family for eight years, she just seemed to give up.
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