Man who starved after benefits cut off 'had pulled out own teeth'

Family provides details of Errol Graham's fatal decline as part of court action against DWP

Errol Graham, a 57-year-old grandfather who died of starvation when his benefits were cut off, had become so mentally ill that his family believe he pulled out two of his own teeth with pliers, they have revealed.

Fresh details of Graham's decline, and the traumatic impact on his relatives of his lonely death and subsequent inquest, are revealed in a witness statement filed as part of the latest phase of a legal action taken by the family against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).