My father, Ray Wegrzyn, who has died aged 70 after living with Parkinson’s disease for more than 30 years, spent his working life writing about other people, and his last year relying on others to find the words for him.
In 2002 he was appointed one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Probation, assessing the efforts of probation services across England and Wales. He believed people could change, and that the work – whether supervising an offender or inspecting a service – deserved honest engagement. He had no patience for doing things for appearance’s sake. “I made a small difference on a national scale,” he wrote. “That’s not bad for a lad from Longsight.”
