‘I felt like I was in a horror movie’

LEAH GRANT said the day she removed her father, Richard Walsh, from Leas Cross nursing home would haunt her until she died.

“My dad was wheeled down to me in a wheelchair, his head was drooping and there was liquid dripping from his mouth.”

But as she placed newspapers (Mr Walsh loved reading) on her father’s knee, she saw he was dying. Relatives waited half an hour for the home’s doctor, who said Mr Walsh might have pneumonia. Residents were not admitted to hospital directly from the home, Mr Walsh’s family were told.