[Mattleninja]

I think people here are looking at this from only their own perspective.
You have to consider, she's been looking after him for 19 years, how many of them she did alone I don't know, but what's to say she hadn't just lost her will for it or something?
Also, it costs money to put people into carehomes, maybe she can't afford that?

Granted, starving him to death is not pleasent in the slightest and her excuse is a terrible, but people should try to look at it from more than one view point before they make judgements.