- On Boxing Day
- a stroke
- caused a blood clot on his brain.
- He was left
- paralysed down his left side, unable
- to speak properly,
- blind in one eye, barely able
- to eat
- or dress.
- He used a mobility scooter.
- Panic alarm
- around his neck
- in case he fell.
- He was summoned
- to a work capability assessment.
- The stress
- caused him to have
- another stroke
- days before the appointment,
- but he was still determined to attend.
- A month later, he received a letter
- telling him he would lose his benefits.
- His health went
- rapidly
- downhill.
- Constant worry;
- how would he survive?
- Days after his benefits were stopped
- he collapsed
- in the street
- near his home
- and died.
[Daily Record, 10/12/2012, Atos benefits bullies killed my sick dad, says devastated Kieran, 13]