Janet Mackozdi, 77, died of hypothermia in a shipping container at Mount Lloyd, Tasmania in 2010. With dementia and in deteriorating health, she had been in the care of her daughter, Jassy Anglin, a nurse, and son-in-law, Michael Anglin, a disability support worker. A court would find that the couple had rejected outside offers of medical help, isolated her from her GP and refused offers of a place in a nursing home, leaving her unable to get help, and told her bank not to inquire into her finances. The court found they had spent three-quarters of her money, including selling her flat. Had Janet received the proper care, the court found, she could have had “plenty of life in front of her”.
This was, said Council on the Ageing Tasmania…
