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Saturday, April 25, 2009

The Moment Social Workers Snatched a Dementia Patient From Daughter's Home and Forced her Back to a Care Home


Concerned about the treatment her elderly mother was receiving in a care home, Rosalind Figg decided to look after her personally. She and her partner created an ensuite bedroom with an alarm system to wake them if 86-year-old Betty Figg, who has dementia, got up in the night.
When her mother confirmed that she was unhappy, Miss Figg took her home in the hope that it would be the end of an unfortunate chapter in her life.
But two days later, amid astonishing scenes, the old lady was snatched back by social services.
A distraught Mrs Figg was wheeled to a car with a blanket over her head after police who had been called in as back-up threatened to smash the door with a battering ram if the family did not hand her over.
Yesterday she was back in her room at £2,000-a-month Butts Croft House in Corley, Warwickshire.

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