My son, Thomas, is quadriplegic, epileptic, and autistic. He has heart problems and 70% lung damage, double incontinence, dysreflexia, and very vulnerable skin which leads to pressure sores. His long list of illness and injuries are being made worse daily by abuse and neglect he is suffering in prison.

I am trying to raise funds to pay for legal costs associated with appealing his sentence so I can get him home and safe.  

Every day, Thomas is repeatedly left to sit on excrement and urine soaked incontinence pads for hours. He regularly misses medication due to the prison not providing a nurse or forgetting his treatment – at one point he was left for 4 days with no medication because staff had neglected to get his prescription refilled. His health is deteriorating rapidly. Just a small example of this is his weight loss – he weighed 82kg on arriving at prison and now weighs approximately 50kg.

Thomas' accident turned our whole family's life upside down. We spent the first 14 weeks with him in ICU being told he may not pull through. He did pull through, but he has been in and out of hospital ever since. We watched him die and watched the crash team bring him back to life over Christmas 2015. Watching his weekly deterioration is torture, not just for Thomas, but for all of his family. As a mother, this experience has been more painful than anything I could have imagined.

Our solicitor has secured a judicial review to try to stop this abuse, neglect and restore his human rights. Hopefully we will get Thomas moved to a hospital where he will receive the care he so urgently needs until we can move forward with an appeal. But in order for the appeal to proceed we need financial help.