A man with Down’s Syndrome died after a hospital mistakenly failed to give him food for nine days, say his devastated family.

Adrian Poulton, 56, had undergone a hip operation at Poole Hospital in Dorset after a fall at his care home, and doctors reportedly marked him ‘nil by mouth’ in error.

After nine days of no food he died in hospital, the family said in an interview with ITV News.

His father Derek Poulton explained that because he was on a drip, and with the family not being medics, ‘we just naturally thought he was having nutrition, a feed’.

‘But as it turns out, they were starving him,’ he added.

When they did realise what was happening, Adrian was already too ill to recover.

Lesley Bungay, Adrian’s sister, said: ‘We were just so worried. He was really poorly. He did look at m

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