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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

RARE PHOTOS: Paralysed swedish woman in london cannot return home due to bureaucracy | Vintage Vibes

building of the Swedish Parliament
Karin’s husband wrote to MPs at the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, but received only one reply. Photograph: Wdnet Studio/Alamy

A Swedish woman left paralysed after a catastrophic bike accident has been stranded in a London hospital for more than a year after efforts to repatriate her to her home country failed due to Stockholm bureaucracy.

The situation, described by her husband as “shameful”, comes following a similar case in which authorities threatened to deport a 74-year-old British woman with Alzheimer’s because of strict adherence to Brexit red tape.

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