Investigation: You Can Only Be Given a Bungalow If You're Old ; This Loving Mother has Spent 12 Years Caring for Her Severely Disabled Sons. In Despair She Begged the Council for a Bungalow. Their Answer

Liverpool Echo › September 08, 2005

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LONE mother Christina Murphy looks after her severely disabled twin boys around the clock.

But after years of struggling to live in a Wirral house barely suited to her sons' needs, Mrs Murphy is crying out for help.

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Investigation: You Can Only Be Given a Bungalow If You're Old ; This Loving Mother has Spent 12 Years Caring for Her Severely Disabled Sons. In Despair She Begged the Council for a Bungalow. Their Answer

Mrs Murphy's 12-year-old son Karl is a spastic quadriplegic, meaning he needs constant help to move, and cannot stand or crawl.

The youngster, already nine stone, has become too heavy to lift and requires hoists so his mother can bath him and put him to bed.

Christopher, Karl's twin brother, is a spastic hemiplegic with paralysis down the le...

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