SOCIALIZED MEDICINE: Man with Down’s Syndrome’s ‘cruel and horrific’ death after 19 days without food.

Giuseppe ‘Joe’ Ulleri, 61, had been neglected and wasted away in hospital.

His inquest earlier this month heard he lost 26lbs in weight and wasted away at Manchester Royal Infirmary .

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust since apologised and promised it would not happen again.

But Joe’s grief-stricken sister Ria Ulleri, who helped care for her brother, called his death “cruel and horrific”.

Speaking for the first time since her loss, the 48-year-old actress told Manchester Evening News : “Joe was a sweet and funny man, but he needed support. It is tragic that the people he relied on to care for him were the ones who let him down.

He’d become a burden to the State.