By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 08:23 EST, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 11:36 EST, 7 April 2013 The government has been ordered to pay compensation for the ‘injustice’ of inflicting misery on an elderly couple who were left without heating for three years by a bungled state-sponsored energy programme. Donald Siteman told a parliamentary watchdog his three-bedroom home had become a ‘hell house’, with his dying wife Evelyn forced to wear her coat indoors and go to bed early in a desperate attempt to get warm. A boiler installed under Labour’s £2.4billion Warm Front scheme broke down after just six months, beginning a tortuous battle to have it fixed which lasted through three bitterly cold winters.
@highlight
Government ordered to pay compensation to Donald Siteman, 90 for the misery inflicted by the catalogue of errors under the Warm Front scheme
@highlight
Wife Evelyn, 85, died in October still pleading for the problem to be fixed
@highlight
New boiler to make their home more efficient broke down after 6 months
@highlight
Department for Energy and contractor Corillion slammed by Ombudsman
@placeholder was severely criticised for its role in the ‘emotional and physical distress’ the couple suffered’.