Elderly couple reunited after being sent to separate care homes

'I’ve never seen him so sad as when he has been without my mum'

The couple got married in 1988 (Daily Record)

A couple in their 90s who were "inconsolable" when they were split up and put into separate care homes, are set to be reunited.

Deteriorating health led to Charles McGuigan and his wife Jean, both 92, being forced to move out of their house in Castlemilk, Glasgow.

Jean who has dementia was unable to look after herself after Charles was hospitalised in December the city council's social work department place her in the Davislea Care Home, according to The Daily Record which originally reported the story.

When Charles was discharged he was place in the Chester Park care home, three miles away from his wife of 30-years.

Glasgow City Council told The Independent it was now working towards reuniting the couple.

"I’ve never seen him so sad as when he has been without my mum," his stepdaughter Sandra Jackson told The Record, adding that she was "delighted" with the news they would now be reunited.

Ms Jackson had been angered by the news her parents were to be separated and said the pair were greatly distressed by not being by each other's sides.

She had previously called their separation "a disgrace", telling The Record that the pair were "inconsolable" about being split up.

She said: "My mum keeps asking for her husband, and my stepdad has been in tears because he is not with her.”