‘Bring our Tom Costello home’

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`Bring our Tom Costello home'

Published: 21 October, 2010

by TOM FOOT

FAMILY and friends of one of Camden's most respected and steadfast social

activists are demanding he be returned home following his shock transfer to a

Northampton mental health hospital against their will.

Tom Costello, who lives in Medburn Street, Somers Town, has supported hundreds

of campaigns inclu­ding battles for the homeless, council tenants and against

the privatisation of the NHS.

The 72-year-old, who was being cared for at the Grove Centre, ­Hampstead, was

drugged and moved 100 miles north to the privately run St s Hospital on

October 7.

Consultants told the family it was the nearest place that could accommodate a

patient with his Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and the decision was based on

clinical reasons alone.

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