Danny ‘was failed from cradle to grave’

THE family of Danny Talbot, a young man who died of a suspected drugs overdose shortly after leaving the care system, yesterday accused the HSE of failing him “from the cradle to the grave”.

His aunt, Sandra Lamb, accused the HSE of not allowing Danny to attend a meeting regarding his own care, which resulted in him putting his fist through a window and requiring hospital attention.

Speaking at a preliminary hearing at the inquest into his death, Sandra Lamb said a District Court judge had ordered that Danny, aged 19 when he died in August last year, receive aftercare until he was 23.