Ex-doctor dies days after son

A former doctor has died days after his severely disabled son passed away at a care home in the Black Country.

Arabinda Kumar Biswas died at Himley Mill Nursing Home in School Road, Himley.

He was 82. His son Roger Rajah Biswas, who was born with cerebral palsy and was also a resident at the home, had died a fortnight earlier aged 38.

Dr Biswas, of Wordsley, was a consultant urologist at Dudley's Guest Hospital and also worked at Birmingham General Hospital.

Funeral services will take place at Gornal Wood Crematorium on Friday.

A Christian service will be held for Roger while there will be a Hindu service for Arabinda Biswas.

Dr Biswas met his wife Joy, a nurse at Birmingham General, in the 1960s and they married in India in 1968. Joy died in 2003.