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A MAN found collapsed on his bathroom floor had been there for four days before police broke into his house.

- ROB HARRIES

Mark Causey, 61, from Kilgetty in Pembrokeshire, dropped his wife Rosalind off at her mother's home in Margam for a few days before returning home, where he planned to have a normal week doing some DIY.

But Rosalind sensed something was wrong when her husband failed to contact her and asked police to check up on him.

Using the webcam the couple had set up via her phone, Rosalind could her husband had been "dishevelled and staggering" around the house while she had been away, then she couldn't see him on the recordings at all.

"Mark had driven me to my mum's home in Margam village as her health was declining and he returned home to do some DIY," she said.

"I became very worried on the Friday, I couldn't reach him. I checked our webcam and saw the previous Monday's footage captured him looking dishevelled and staggering.

"Then there was no more movement, anywhere at home, and I knew something was wrong.

"I called the police to do a welfare check and when they broke, in they found Mark collapsed in the bathroom. He'd been there for four days."

When paramedics arrived Mark was semiconscious and severely dehydrated.

He was rushed to Withybush General Hospital where a CT scan revealed lesions on his brain.

Rosalind said: "As a nurse, I knew that wasn't good.

"When they said 'lesions' my heart sank. I thought it could be a stroke or cancer."