She was his teenage sweetheart and they were married for 70 years. During her final months he feared that she was starving to death in her nursing home and all he wanted was for her to come home.
Cy Thistlethwaite, however, was forced to watch as his wife wasted away in hospital and then in a care home until she died alone. She lost four stone in four months and her corpse was so thin that even the undertaker asked what had happened.