An elderly UK woman who was stuck in her bath for four days has been rescued after a waitress at her favourite café realised she had not come in for her usual piece of cake and cup of tea and raised the alarm. But it was three days later.
87-year-old Doreen Mann was having a bath when she became trapped and couldn’t lift herself out. “It was frightening in a sense because I didn’t know how long I would be stuck there,” she told the local newspaper.
But when Sonia Congrave, 39, a waitress at her local café Tomassi’s in Southend, hadn’t seen Ms Mann for three days, she called police who visited her house and heard her cries for help.
A happy ending
The pensioner survived by drinking water from the tap and covering herself with towels or topping up the hot water to stay warm.
“She is a really strong woman – all she wanted afterwards was her cake and a cup of tea,” Ms Congrave said.
The pair became friends after Ms Mann began visiting the restaurant ten years ago when her late husband moved into a nursing home.
The waitress now plans to buy Ms Mann a mobile phone for future emergencies – just in case.
