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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amy Sharpe

Care home residents left to starve during Covid pandemic as grandad became 'a skeleton'

Hundreds of care home residents were left to starve because relatives could not help feed them during the pandemic, campaigners say.

A grandad at one home is feared to have lost six stone in 13 months before he died on September 14.

John McGrath’s sister, Claire Wilmore, has shared photos of his emaciated body taken two days ­before his death aged 74 from factors linked to Parkinson’s.

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