Judge says family's bid to force way into nursing home was 'really disgraceful'

One family member allegedly passed the chronically-ill woman a jumper containing illegal drugs.

The president of the High Court has said it is “really disgraceful" that family members of a homeless woman, who has chronic incurable illness and a history of drug addiction, tried to force their way into her nursing home last weekend with one allegedly passing to her a jumper containing illegal drugs.

The woman was taken the following day to a hospital emergency department with chest pains. Although she is now fit for discharge back to the nursing home, and while the hospital wants to discharge her because of COVID-19, the nursing home will not take her back because of her family's conduct.