MY BROTHER WAS LEFT TO DIE IN MISERY

Dying James was booted out of home

- MARK MCGIVERN

THE FAMILY of a blind man have blasted a council for booting him out of his family home before his death.

Sheriff officers evicted James Montague, 58, from his house in Motherwell in February while he was in hospital for a blood transfusion due to stage six kidney failure.

He was kicked out despite a consultant psychiatrist pleading for him to stay in his home. James's brother Patrick blasted North Lanarkshire Council for the move and said his final months were spent in misery in an upstairs flat unsuited to his needs.

James died on Friday last week at the St Andrew's Hospice in Airdrie, leaving his family heartbroken at the way he was evicted from the property he lived in for most of his life.