In bed, unable to speak or eat, he lay there wearing a diaper. I didn’t want him to live that way because nobody would want to.”
The last years of Sue Bird’s marriage to former Mansfield Town defender Kevin Bird were tainted by violence and sorrow.
Dementia destroyed her affectionate husband’s personality, and in 2020 he was eventually sectioned. He passed away in February 2023 without ever returning home.
Similar to the Bird family, Tina White started to worry about her husband Goff, a former semi-professional football player who played for Ryde, Waterlooville, and Basingstoke, after he started acting aggressively and inconsistent.
His entire character evolved. He used to be empathetic. He treated me with a great deal of love and passion. However, he changed completely and became someone I didn’t like. He became quite hostile one day and declared his desire to murder me.
