Kate Garraway reveals she had bailiffs at her door while late husband Derek was in a coma in hospital

Kate Garraway visited by bailiffs whilst husband was in coma for council tax debt Source: ITV

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00:00I've experienced this, you know, Martin, when Derek was in his coma in the latter half of 2020,

00:07somebody came to the door, a bailiff. It was all in Derek's name and they said,

00:12you have to pay your year's council tax plus the fines because we've been chasing you with letters.

00:17It was my fault. I hadn't be opening the letters in his name because my head was in another place.

00:23And I've experienced that the speed that happened was six weeks between him, you know,

00:29finding that because he was in a coma, he hadn't paid our council tax to having bailiffs at the door.

00:35And I, of course, I'm in a much more fortunate position than the sort of people you're talking about.

00:40So it is brutal. This is wonderful. Yeah, that you've achieved this.

00:45And the fear and one of the reasons I've done this for my mental health charity.