The Daily Mail:
- Couple had to walk ten miles a week to a soup kitchen for free food
- Charity call for investigation after couple ‘slipped through the net’
- Mark and Helen Mullins kept food in plastic bags in their garden because they couldn’t afford a fridge
- Driven to despair at having to live off £57.50 a week
- Poverty-stricken pair found dead in home last Friday
Last updated at 2:03 PM on 9th November 2011
An Army veteran and his wife were found dead in their home after becoming so poor they were living ‘hand to mouth’ on food handouts.
Mark and Helen Mullins died in an apparent suicide pact after being reduced to crushing poverty at their rundown home in Bedworth, Warwickshire.
The couple were reduced to despair at having to live off just £57.50 a week, and had to walk ten miles each week to a soup kitchen to collect free vegetables.
Tragic: Mark and Helen Mullins could not face another freezing winter on the poverty line, according to neighbours
Military man: Mr Mullins served as a PE teacher in the Army but fell on hard times after leaving the service
Former soldier Mark, 48, and Helen, 59, who had learning difficulties, ‘slipped through the net’ and were found side-by-side in their home after not having access to the right benefits. Continue Reading →





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