IT is depressing enough to have to hear that anybody is forced to live on the streets in any part of the country let alone our beautiful city Worcester.
To have to hear the shocking stories and descriptions that people are living on Worcester’s streets in such abject squalor surrounded by rats and litter is, frankly, appalling.
No matter what the current political or financial picture of our country, of our county, of our city is, nobody should have to be living on the streets.
Nobody in a country as rich as ours should be having to sleep rough.
Today is the third anniversary of Cardon Banfield’s death, a homeless man who was found partially mummified on the banks of the River Severn in 2016.
Today we must remember Cardon Banfield and every day ensure we do everything we can to make sure such a shocking death does not happen again on the streets of Worcester.
Homelessness is still a problem in Worcester, as it is across the country, and we have a duty to make sure that problem ends.
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