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The mother of a former Coronation Street actress was arrested after attempting to get her 97-year-old grandmother out of her nursing home prior to the lockdown.
Leandra Ashton, who played Saskia Larson on the soap opera, shared harrowing images of her mother in handcuffs, while her grandmother, suffering from dementia, was sitting in the car during the incident in East Yorkshire on Tuesday.
Recovered nurse Ylenia Angeli, 73, had not seen her mother affected by dementia for nine months due to the coronavirus pandemic and wanted to care for her at home.
Humberside police later confirmed they had dropped the arrest and allowed Angeli to return home to her elderly mother after the heartbreaking scenes.
Leandra posted on Facebook the harrowing clip of her mother being put into a police patrol on Facebook, calling for family members to be treated as ‘key workers’ to prevent such situations from happening to anyone else.
(Image: Facebook)
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The former actress and yoga teacher wrote how the family had been trying for months to get their grandmother home, after becoming frustrated with the window-only policies.
Leandra tries to reassure her grandmother, who is sitting in the front of the family car.
“Nan, I love you and we will fight for you,” he says.
She cries when her mom is pulled into the police car, and she can be heard saying while filming, “I’m not okay. It’s ridiculous, she’s my grandmother, we want to be with our grandmother ”.
Ylenia replies: “I love you, come here. Stay strong.”
Leandra’s grandmother had resided at the Market Weighton nursing home for about a year.
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In her post, actress and yoga teacher Leandra said: “Yesterday my 73-year-old mom pushed into the nursing home to hug my 97-year-old grandmother who has dementia. Then she quietly pulled her out.
“My mom is a trained nurse and wants to take care of my grandmother at home.
“We only have power of attorney for my grandmother’s finances. Not for her welfare.
“Before we close, we could get over this by visiting my Nan regularly.
“Now we can’t. My mom was arrested because she refused to take my grandmother back to the residence.
“It feels like we’re living in the worst Kafka-style nightmare. Masked people come to take your relative.
“I find myself on the wrong side of the law for the first time in my life.”
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Leandra added that she had “tried to go through all official channels” by writing to MPs and Public Health England.
She said: “We raised a ‘safe protection’ concern at the beginning of the confinement due to my grandmother’s clear deterioration, but it was inexplicably abandoned and ‘disappeared’.
“When she became ill at the residence and was admitted to the hospital, we asked her not to return.
“However, she was discharged from the hospital behind our back and without our consent.
“When you are faced with irrational responses, your actions become irrational.
“When you are repeatedly told ‘we’re just following the rules’ and those rules have kept you away from your loved one for about 8 or 9 months, you question those rules.
“When the rules, like so many in this period in our history, claim to be in place to ‘protect’ but are still doing incalculable damage to physical and mental health, then you start breaking the rules.”
Later, police said they had initially responded to reports of an “assault” at the home.
Humberside Police Deputy Chief Chris Noble said: “We responded to a report of an assault on a nursing home in Market Weighton in East Yorkshire yesterday at 11.15am.
“The nursing home also reported that their daughter had taken a woman for whom they were legally responsible from the home.
“The officers found both women together with a third woman nearby and informed them that they would have to return the lady to the house, as it is their legal duty to do so.
“The situation was distressing and emotional for everyone and the woman did not want her mother to be returned to the residence staff.
“The officer who attended had to make sure everyone was safe and in particular the 93-year-old woman who was fragile and vulnerable, so he made the decision to briefly restrain the 73-year-old woman until the situation was calm. and under control.
Then the officers returned the old woman to the house.
“The 73-year-old woman was immediately unleashed, arrested and allowed to return home with her daughter.
“She and her daughter thanked the officers for the way they had handled the incident.
“We understand that this is an emotional and difficult situation for everyone involved. We sympathize with all the families in this position and we will continue to provide all the support we can to both parties ”.
Leandra’s husband, James McKenna, said that after the incident, officers treated her mother-in-law well despite the harrowing circumstances of her initial arrest.
James from York said: “The police were very compassionate, they saw and understood the situation and we cannot fault the way they acted.
“It is an ongoing problem with the nursing home that has prompted us to take this action.”
A spokesman for the nursing home said: “We have been told not to comment.”
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