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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Holly Evans

Inside squalid house where disabled man was enslaved and starved by wife and carer

Sussex Police

A vulnerable disabled man was made to live in squalid conditions at the hands of his wife and his carer, as they neglected him to take drugs and plan nights away.

Tom Somerset-How, 40, who has cerebral palsy and uses an electric wheelchair, had been treated “like a cow” and was forced to remain in bed, often lying in his own urine and faeces without adequate food.

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