Care home fined fined £1,040,000 after death of woman, 93
The owners of a care home where a 93-year-old woman died after being scalded in a bath have been fined £1.04m by a judge who handed suspended prison sentences to its former manager and a member of staff.
Aster Healthcare pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter after the death of Frances Norris, a dementia patient who died in 2015 days after being placed into a bath at a cost-cutting and “grossly negligent” nursing home.
Elisabeth West was the care home manager and was “well aware” of problems raised for a number of years in relation to hot water systems at Birdsgrove nursing home in Bracknell, the Royal Courts of Justice in London was told.