A driver who reported his car stolen and hid it in his dead sister-in-law's garage dodged jail. Graham Harris pocketed more than £5,000 from his insurers but was caught after police spotted the BMW being taken away for repairs.
20.08.2022 - 07:05 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A wheelchair-bound Scots mum says she has been left suicidal after being forced to ‘bum shuffle’ around just two rooms in her home due to inadequate council housing. Danielle MacArthur woke up to discover both her legs were suddenly paralysed in October 2019 before later being diagnosed with Functional Neurological Disorder.
The 27-year-old, who also has cysts on her brain and spine malformations, has now been sleeping on her living room couch next to a portable toilet for the last three years. The mum-of-one told how she feels like a “caged animal” after being left relying on her carers to carry her in and out of her Kilsyth home while being unable to get up to her young son Peter's room.
Despite repeated pleas for help to North Lanarkshire Council, Danielle said she was forced to take out disability discrimination lawsuit against the local authority and has been awarded £10,000. But two months after the case concluded, the mum claims the money has yet to be paid out while still desperately waiting for suitable accommodation to be found.
She explained: “I just don’t know where to turn anymore. My house is just not accessible at all. My doctors wrote to the council and told them that a property with stairs isn’t appropriate but they seem to have ignored them.
“I can only really get about my living room slightly and it's by shuffling on my bum, pulling myself about with my hands. This is making the issues with my spine even worse.
“I can kind of stand up with my crutches but I’ve damaged my shoulder from using them and I’ve got carpal tunnel in my wrists so it’s even harder now. I’m just trapped in this house all the time, like a caged animal.
“It’s mentally draining to the point that I don’t even see the point in living
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