Dying man ignored by shoppers
BRITAIN’S “walk-on-by” society was laid bare after shoppers ignored a dying man as he lay slumped on the pavement in broad daylight, it emerged yesterday.
It took nearly two hours before someone came to the aid of the man, in his 50s, lying outside a row of busy shops with a shopping bag, containing milk, by his side.
Alarmed passer-by Tony Poll, 33, dialled 999 when he saw the man.
Mr Poll said he was “disgusted” so many people ignored the man’s plight.
“Even as I stopped to help, people were saying ‘leave him, he is just drunk’,” he said.
“I knew he was dead when I stopped and I honestly believe if someone had rung earlier it would have been a different story.”
Ambulance workers in Peterborough, Cambs worked for more than half an hour to try to revive the man, who has not yet been identified.
Cambridgeshire Police are not treating the death as suspicious.
Local councillor Marion Todd said she was “appalled” .