Family of Scots OAP who 'wanted to die' after care home lockdown brands government 'an absolute disgrace'
100-year-old woman is being removed from a care home after her family could no longer bear to see her “fade away”.Doreen Tilly’s great-granddaughter, Sonia Dixon, said she had no other option but to take her out of the facility, which has been in lockdown for 10 months.Sonia, 37, launched a furious attack on the Scottish Government’s “complete and utter failure” to end the elderly’s suffering during the Covid-19 outbreak.She told how Doreen was “full of life” when she celebrated her 100th birthday at the beginning of the pandemic but is now on anti-depressants and wants her life to be over.The former pub manager is scheduled to leave the care home in Glenrothes on February 1 after living there for six years.Business studies student Sonia is