Coroner calls for lessons to be learned following Norfolk man’s death in ‘horrific’ circumstances

By PETER WALSH Thursday, June 30, 2011

 10.07 AM

A coroner has demanded lessons be learned after social services failed to check on an 82-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease who was then found dead in “horrific” circumstances.

Social services staff were supposed to check on Kenneth Mills four times a day, but they failed to do so and his son faced the “terrible trauma” of finding his father dead and his frail mother lying in her own urine next to him.