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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Laura Connor & Louise Lazell

HISTORICAL FACTS: Brain surgery leaves patients traumatised and suicidal with uncontrollable tremors - The Untold Story

Grandma-of-eight Audra Marcelle Taylor thought she was having life-changing wonder surgery that would cure her lifelong muscle spasms and contractions.

The former West Mids PCSO was given deep brain surgery (DBS) just a few years into its introduction at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) to help her dystonia.

It did change her life - but for all the wrong reasons.

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