The woman refused to accept their explanation and accused them of ‘taking the piss’
After the passenger questioned why she had lifted her mask, Ms Pakenaite’s sister said in a distressed tone: ‘So she could lip read me. What do you want?’The main symptoms of Usher syndrome are hearing loss and an eye disorder called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes night blindness and a loss of peripheral vision.
Richard Kramer, chief executive of the disability charity Sense, said his organisation had received ‘lots’ of reports of disabled people being challenged for not wearing a covering.
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