When Celia Jones received a call from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport she couldn’t believe what she heard. While driving to the hospital along Cardiff Road on the evening of September 27, 2017, she was told she was too late and that her partner of almost 30 years was dead.
She thought those words would be the most shocking she would ever hear, but nothing could have prepared her for what was to come in the days, months and years ahead. The revelations surrounding Brian Boulton’s death are so unbelievable they’ve left Celia thinking about little else five years on.
Celia discovered eight months after Brian's death that doctors made the decision not to resuscitate Brian without asking him, Celia, or Brian’s brother, and placed a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) form on his files seven days before his death by aspiration pneumonia. Even more shocking - the form states that Brian, 69, had no known relatives alive, despite Celia attending the hospital regularly to look after him.
