Shocked at story of disabled homeless (From Swindon Advertiser)

Shocked at story of disabled homeless

11:32am Friday 10th February 2012 in Letters

Reference your article (Adver, February 3) about an appeal for blankets for homeless people; I was shocked to learn that a vulnerable wheelchair-bound man was sleeping rough and needed an ambulance to take him to GWH.

How does someone in a wheelchair manage to “sleep” and what was he doing on the streets anyway?

I feel extremely saddened that something like this can happen, in what is supposed to be a welfare state.

It’s completely unacceptable that anyone should have to sleep rough, but someone, somewhere needs to make sure that no disabled person ever does.

Teresa Brett Blackmore Close Swindon