‘He was isolated and in terrible pain’

PETER McKENNA died of septicaemia just 12 days after being admitted to Leas Cross nursing home in Swords, Co Dublin.

His half-brother, Dan Moore, believes Peter’s blood poisoning resulted from an infection that had developed after a urinary catheter was inserted.

Dan said that Peter, who was the child of his mother’s first marriage, had Down syndrome and later developed Alzheimer’s disease.