“Her general condition I would describe as poor. She looked unclean, her hair was matted and unkempt.
“She was dirty from faeces and in my opinion she had been in this condition for some considerable time.”
Edith Evans. Picture: PA
She added: “I was quite shocked at her appearance and the way she was left at the care home to come to A&E without anybody with her.”
Mrs Pulman said she was asked to contact the nursing home to find out why she had not been accompanied to the hospital and was sent without medical records.
The inquest heard she spoke to the home’s nurse-matron Philip McCaffrey about the widow.