A mother who was paralysed in a freak fundraising accident was left to fester in her own faeces for days after hospital staff refused to clean her.
Cheryll Rich, 38, broke her back after tumbling into a canal lock last summer and was unable to move anything from the waist down.
She was sent to St Mary's Hospital in London for emergency spinal surgery before moving into Basildon University Hospital's 'notorious' Linford Ward to recover.
But while here, Ms Rich said medics 'dehumanised' her, refusing to wash her, change her heavily soiled hospital gowns, replace her water for five days or answer her desperate cries for help.
Her horrified partner, Jack Barnes, 51, was forced to clean the mess off his stricken lover himself after hospital staff 'handed him a bowl of water and told him to go do it'.
