Sandy Munroe from Tennycape, Nova Scotia, was not surprised to hear Thursday that a British hospital will not send his wife back to Canada. But he was undeniably devastated.
"They said it was not in her best interest to send her back," he said.
"They don’t think she should be sent over to be close to her husband of almost 45 years."
Mr. Munroe was notified of the decision in an e-mail from Billingham Grange, the North Yorkshire hospital where
65-year-old Alzheimer’s patient Helena (Heli) Munroe has lived since last spring.
Many people close to Mr. Munroe believe members of the hospital panel changed their minds after the CBC aired a television report on the couple last month in which their son accused Mr. Munroe of physically abusing his wife.
"I can’t even begin to talk about The Fifth Estate," Mr. Munroe said. "It was a wicked misrepresentation of a loving marriage."
"It broke my heart to hear the things they accused me of. . . . I love my wife and I treated her well. . . . I always did."
"This has been devastating, and Billingham Grange is a good, good hospital, but they did the wrong thing."
Mr. Munroe’s voice quavered as he talked about his two-year battle to get his wife returned to Nova Scotia from her native England, where her brother took her in November 2005.
Mrs. Munroe who herself, held a doctorate in cognitive therapy and was an expert in Alzheimer’s disease, was declared mentally incompetent by her Canadian geriatricians in early 2005.
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