By Anna Hodgekiss PUBLISHED: 06:53 EST, 14 February 2013 | UPDATED: 17:34 EST, 14 February 2013 Janet Norton, here with husband John who is mentally impaired, is now recovering after being left to lie in her own filth for weeks while a council-appointed carer cleaned around her A pensioner was left to lie in her own filth for weeks while a council-appointed carer cleaned around her. Janet Norton, 72, lay immobilised on her sofa for two months with a back injury, yet the carer appears to have ignored her desperate condition. Her shocked daughter Sharon Matthews discovered her mother at her south London home in December 2012 and alerted paramedics.
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Janet Norton, 72, lay immobilised on sofa for two months with back injury
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Carer cleaned the flat but appears to have ignored her desperate state
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Daughter became suspicious after mother never answered the phone
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Discovered her lying in 'disgusting state' and in own waste
We regret we didn't know about it until December 17 when Mrs @placeholder told us.