Campaigners have claimed that hundreds of care home residents were left to starve because relatives could not help feed them during the pandemic. One grandfather is thought to have lost six stone in 13 months before his death.
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. Former nurse Claire 73, had not seen her brother for over a year because of Covid restrictions.
Claire, from Lee, South East London, told The Mirror online that the former jockey weighed 11st when first admitted to the Birmingham care home but withered away to 5st when he died. She said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw him. He was a skeleton lying on a mattress on the floor I’ve worked in all areas of nursing and I’ve never seen anything like this. I felt that if I had been allowed to visit three months prior, I’d have taken him home with me.”
