In tribute to DAD
‘He fought for my sister until the day she died’
Angela Gourd, 67, lives in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, with her partner Mick, 57.
When my twin sister Jane was born 30 minutes after me, the midwives exchanged glances. ‘Shall we take her away?’ they asked.
‘Dad built a workshop at home so he could move his business there’
Jane was born with Down’s syndrome and, in 1954, this often meant institutionalised care for life. But my parents vowed they’d move heaven and earth to give Jane a normal family life. Sadly, they faced constant opposition. When Jane struggled to suckle, the health visitor told my dad, Ken, then 32, that it would be ‘kinder to let her
