Care Home Killed My Dad, Claims Son (UK)

Care home killed my war hero dad, claims angry son

Apr 30 2009 

By Ben Griffiths

NAVY hero Edward Minick served his country with honour for five years in World War II. He survived a U-boat attack on the Russian convoys and received five medals for his sacrifice.

But the 88-year-old Scot's courage didn't earn him a dignified death.

He spent his final weeks in agony, with a dislocated hip and gruesome bedsores that the staff at his care home failed to treat or even notice.

Instead of getting Edward to hospital after he hurt himself in a fall, his "carers" simply put him to bed and left him to suffer. He died more than three months later.

Edward's heartbroken son Eddie said yesterday: "The war could never kill my dad but the nursing home did.

In November last year, inspectors visited the 59-bed Southwark Park home and gave it a zero star rating.

And at an inquest into Edward's death, coroner Dr Adela Williams recorded a verdict of "natural causes aggravated by neglect".

Abridged

SOURCE:    Glasgow Daily Record -Scotland,UK

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