Scotland's largest hospital for 'mentally deficient' people closed 20 years ago amid claims of torture and neglect.
Lennox Castle was the site of the hospital for "mentally deficient" people until it closed in 2002
When it opened in 1936, it was heralded as ahead of its time and the largest and best equipped hospital of its kind in the UK. The road doesn't take you all the way to the castle any more. It is a mile walk uphill, past Celtic FC's training ground into a high-walled driveway. "When you're up, you stand at the bottom edge of the bed until you get a headcount. And if you're not in the ward, they'll go out looking for you.""They kept hitting me and hitting me," he says. "I couldn't bear it."
She says: "I thought what we were doing when we were closing the hospital was not just helping those people who lived there move out, but we were also ensuring the other families and individuals didn't have places like Lennox Castle as the only choice available if things got difficult."
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