'I lived in hospital for 50 years but wasn’t ill'
Charles Esler spent more than 50 years living behind locked doors in hospital despite not being acutely unwell.
Charles, who has a mild learning disability and epilepsy, was first taken into hospital when he was 10.
He told BBC Scotland News he had “spent too many birthdays” in hospitals and he didn't like being locked in, with no freedom.
His sister Margo said she had fought for Charles to be moved to somewhere he could be independent and last year, aged 62, he finally got the keys to his own flat for the first time.
