A homeless man died of hypothermia after he was kicked out and forced to wait for his dog

News24xx.com -  Tragic, a homeless man died of hypothermia after he was kicked out and forced to wait for his dog to be release from a police kennel in the cold.

The man named Pericles Malagardis or known as Peri, went to Uxbridge Police station after leaving hospital to pick up his dog Django. Peri said that Django who was ‘everything to him’. 

And the 63-year-old was told he couldn’t pick Django that night but would have to wait till morning. But, he was the kicked out of the station by PC Bhupinder Kalsi in the early hours of the morning as temperatures dipped towards zero.

And tragic, five hours later, Peri was found unresponsive, with a body temperature of 26 degrees and he pronounced dead an hour later on 5 March 2016. 

Peri, from Greece, moved to London in 1989 and worked as a delivery driver for 11 years before falling on hard times.  After the breakdown of a relationship of he job, then he started living in his car, but it was impounded five years ago and he was forced to live on the streets.

Due to Peri’s character very good, he became known in west London and was well liked by anyone he came across. And the staff at Cockfosters would top up his Oyster card so he could travel to Heathrow airport and spend most nights in Terminal 5. Staff at the airport, who became close to him over the years, would give him food so he wouldn’t go hungry.

Some of the British airway crew, along with a minister at Wembley who took Peri under his wing, started fundraising for him to get a flight home to family that he hadn’t seen in years. 

More than £6,000 was collect from fundraising for Peri so he could make the trip home. 

Peri’s friend Jenny Perry, an air hostess for British Airways, said that Peri had asked Jenny to look after Django on many occasions, and she now takes care of him permanently. 

She said, "It’s so sad because the money we raised we ended up using to bury him. He was such a character, he touched so many people. It’s absolutely devastating."
 

 

 

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