Family accuse hospital of covering up death

The family of a man who died in Tallaght Hospital after becoming increasingly dehydrated, even as his wife begged nurses to give him water, believe the circumstances of his death have been “covered up”.

Peter Acton, aged 61, from St John’s Grove in Clondalkin, Dublin, died on Oct 3, 2005, after he went into renal failure having been deprived of fluids over a five-hour period despite being diagnosed with dehydration on admission.

Mr Acton became so desperate for water that he begged his wife Lydia to take him home because he “did not want to die” in hospital.