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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Catherine Furze & Graeme Murray

Pensioner, 80, left to live in room where 'asbestos was found' after British Gas visit

A family were horrified after their 80-year-old mum was left to live in room where 'asbestos was found' after a visit by a British Gas engineer.

Sheila Sneddon cleaned debris and left work without knowing she was being exposed to the potentially deadly substance

A fitter told her a hole in her sitting room wall would not be filled as part of a £5,000 job which involved taking out her old back boiler and placing it behind her fire.

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