Our son’s final days

Summary

NHS investigators are to meet the family of a young, autistic man - left starving and desperately thirsty in hospital while waiting for a delayed operation.

Mark Stuart spent five days in agony and died following a catalogue of failings by NHS staff. His parents say they have been battling for answers for four years. 

These are the harrowing events that came days before the needless, avoidable death of Mark Stuart. Mark was a young man with autism.