A pensioner gatecrashed the launch of a fund to help asylum seekers with her protest about treatment of old people.

Eileen Furbank interrupted the event at All Saints Church, Ilkley, with a photograph of a wound in her mother's back which she said had been neglected in a nursing home. Mrs Furbank was angry that while church leaders had been highlighting the plight of asylum seekers, the campaign for better care of the elderly was not awarded publicity. During the launch of a fund to help Zahir Titouche and his family, Mrs Furbank MP Ann Cryer and The Bishop of Bradford: "You are getting on a bandwagon. What are you doing about the elderly who are abused?"

Mrs Furbank's mother Frances Hales, died at the Eastmoor Nursing Home in Ilkley. It has closed down. The Bishop of Bradford, the Right Reverend David James, led her away for a private conversation. He later said: "I thought she was trying to say something very important that needed to be heard. I was sorry she came here where we were focussing on the needs of asylum seekers but she was trying to highlight a real problem that many elderly people are not being cared for properly."

Mrs Cryer has arranged a meeting with her.