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==External links==
[http://content.met.police.uk/News/Nurse-conviction-makes-legal-history/1260267527674/1257246745756 Met Police, 'Nurse conviction makes legal history', 12/8/09]

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-12125575 BBC, 'Care workers use glove puppet to bully elderly women', 6/1/11]

[http://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/news-articles/bromsgrove-care-staff-sentenced-for-neglect.html West Mercia Police, 'Bromsgrove Care Staff Sentenced For Neglect' (28/8/12)]. The victim, who had not been helped into bed or attended to in the evening, was found in the morning lying on the floor in the corner of his room in Breme House, partly dressed and in a distressed state, suffering from borderline hypothermia and complaining of hip pain. He subsequently needed to spend five weeks in hospital. For the offence of ill treating or wilfully neglecting a person without capacity, under s44 MCA 2005: Glen Walsh, aged 23 (date of birth 18/4/89), of Granary Road, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, and Gail Broadway, aged 38 (dob 19/3/74), of Lyttleton Avenue, Bromsgrove were both given four month jail sentences suspended for 12 months, 12 month community orders with supervision and told to carry out 125 hours of unpaid community work; Maxine Turbill, aged 46 (dob 15/9/65), of Grayshott Close, Sidemoor, Bromsgrove, was given a two month jail sentence suspended for 12 months and a 12 month community order with supervision; all three were each told to pay £500 costs and an order was made barring them from working with children under the age of 16 and vulnerable adults. They had denied the offence but were found guilty by a jury following a seven-day trial in July this year.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22532176 BBC, 'Luton council bus driver "forgot woman with dementia"' (14/5/13)]. Prosecution for neglect.

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