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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Vivienne Aitken

Ex-Scots boxer's nightmare in care home as damning report highlights catalogue of failings

A former professional boxer had 20 falls in 10 months while in a Scots care home.

And after the last one in January 2021, Lawson Thain, 86, was left to sit in a chair in agony for almost four hours before medical attention was sought.

He was finally taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary by ambulance and died there from a combination of pneumonia and a broken hip two months later.

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