Man who let mum die on bathroom floor jailed
"It must have been a difficult thing to do.""He has always said to anyone prepared to listen… that he tried to move her and couldn't. She wanted to stay where she was."He is a man who is distressed about all this," Ford added.Follow BBC Cumbria on X, external, Facebook, external, Nextdoor and Instagram, external and listen to Radio Cumbria on BBC Sounds.
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Man who let mum die on bathroom floor jailedImage source, SuppliedImage caption, Stewart Irwin has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prisonPublished24 minutes agoA man who failed to help his 74-year-old mother as she lay for two weeks slowly dying on their bathroom floor has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison.Stewart Irwin, from Carlisle, finally dialled 999 in the early afternoon of 28 July 2023, and told the call handler his mother's skin had "started to turn blue".Carlisle Crown Court heard paramedics who attended the two-bed Rydal Street flat found the pensioner unconscious, semi-naked and malnourished.Mr Justice Bright said Irwin "made a conscious decision" to leave his mother without help and "must have realised that she was approaching death".Warning: This…
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