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He survived war-era hardship and raised six children, but Brian McLaren’s family believe he suffered in his final years. The rest home says this is not the case. Nicholas Jones reports.
Warning: This story discusses suicide
Brian McLaren, in his 90s, increasingly frail and with failing vision, complained that nobody helped when he pressed his rest home call bell.
He said that “the carer would come in, turn it off and say she'd be back in five minutes, only often she never returned”, says Chris McLaren, Brian’s daughter.
