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Ryan Carroll & Iona Young

Disabled Scots mum 'trapped in own home' relies on husband to carry her upstairs

A disabled Scots mum says she is "trapped" in her own home and even has to rely on her husband to carry her up the stairs.

Rebecca Kelly, 34, has told how she even has to crawl through ice to get to her front door in winter because the parking space is so far away from her home in Loanhead, Midlothian. The mum-of-one also relies on her husband to cook, clean and help her have a bath due to an inaccessible home which has "stolen her dignity".

Rebecca, who has cerebral palsy, cannot move around her house - yet her efforts to buy a suitable home through a Scottish Government scheme have been frustrated. The chemistry teacher says the help to buy scheme is discriminatory to disabled people as it enacts price caps which means potential buyers cannot put in offers above the home report value, reports Edinburgh Live.

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