A GRIEVING daughter today told how her father died a day after he was left to drive home after collapsing in a supermarket.

Frank Keslake, 68, from Weymouth, fell ill at Morrisons in Dorchester Road, Weymouth, and was helped by staff into a wheelchair.

His daughter Stephanie Snow, of Norfolk Road, says staff pushed her father to his car but left him to drive home.

Mr Keslake managed to drive to his home in Wyke Regis, but phoned his daughter to say he couldn't get out of his car.

She took him to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester, where he died the next morning.

Mrs Snow, 39, says she is still waiting for a reply from the supermarket, a month after sending a letter asking why staff did not call for an ambulance.

She said: "At the moment I have not even been sent a reply acknowledging my letter.

"I don't want compensation but I have serious concerns about the customer care training of the staff."

She said her father had been shopping on May 16 when he began to feel unwell.

"His legs began to go so he asked for assistance. They put him in a wheelchair, which is very acceptable, but then they left him in the car park.

"I don't know how but he managed to drive home.

"When he got there he called me to say he needed help.

"I virtually had to carry him out of the car into the flat.

"He'd been in the car for two hours and said he couldn't move."

Mrs Snow took her father from his home in Chesil View to Dorset County Hospital later that evening.

He died the next morning, from renal failure and cardiac shock.

She said: "After he died I went into Morrisons to ask about it and I was given a comment card to put my details on.

"I wrote to the headquarters but they haven't even bothered to get back to me."

Mrs Snow says her father, who had a history of heart problems, was on the waiting list to receive a pacemaker.

"I would have thought it was common sense to phone an ambulance," she said.

A spokeswoman for Morrisons said a letter had been sent to Mrs Snow on June 26 and must have been delayed. She said: "Mr Keslake was witnessed sitting on a bench in the store and a member of staff asked him if he was okay. He said he was, but could he have assistance to his car and a wheelchair.

"We did offer to call an ambulance on his behalf but he said he was fine.

"We offer our sincerest condolences to the family."