Elderly man with dementia admitted to hospital with frostbite to be detained there by court order

An elderly man with dementia who was admitted to hospital with frostbite in his feet due to “extreme self-neglect” in his "squalid" home is to be detained in hospital on foot of a High Court order.

Aged in his 70s, the man, who lives alone, has a long history of alcohol abuse, and says he wants to go home and intends to continue drinking two bottles of wine daily.