Susan and Ken Dinn had been shielding on a holiday park in Caernarfon, North Wales, since July they wanted to keep away from their home as the borough has recently had the highest rates of Covid-19

A couple who have been forced to leave their caravan in Wales say they have been “sent back home to die”.

Susan Dinn, who is registered disabled, and husband Ken Dinn, who has chronic asthma, had been shielding on a holiday park in Caernarfon, Wales, since July.

They wanted to keep away from their home in Knowsley as the borough has recently had the highest rates of Covid-19 in the whole of England.

But the caravan park has been forced to close due to the two-week “fire break” lockdown in Wales.

Susan, 67, told the Liverpool Echo : “It was safer for us to be in Wales, we were no threat to anyone there, we’ve been there that long.