I’m insulted regularly. My crime? Using a wheelchair

The story of the quadriplegic kept prisoner by his wife and her lover is appalling – but the abuse disabled people like me suffer is all too commonplace, writes James Moore

No one should have to endure the neglect and violence that Somerset-How endured

Being dependent upon other people is no joke.

I experienced it during a three-month long hospital spell after a cycling accident which left me using a wheelchair – and for some time afterwards, while I was adjusting to a body with new limits and working with physiotherapists to get the most I could out of it.

When your carers fail – like the nurse who lashed out at me for pressing the call button when I was in dire need of morphine – it is very frightening. It wounds. It leaves scars. I still have them. I still suffer from flashbacks.