Crying out for help
Lucy Bailey, 24, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Dialling the number, I waited for the familiar voice at the other end of the line. ‘Hi, love,’ my dad Jonathan, 50, said. ‘How’s things?’ I asked. ‘I’m really missing normal life,’ he said with a sigh.
It was summer 2020 and I knew Dad was struggling due to the pandemic.
Lockdown had been tough on him and he was missing his usual busy schedule.
Known as Bazza to his friends, Dad was one of the kindest people I knew.
Every Christmas Eve, he’d be out on the streets handing out sleeping bags and
