[Kate!]

A disabled woman who needed help to eat, clothe and feed herself died from starvation because a care worker failed to check on her, a court has heard. Julie Cleworth, 43, died after being left on her own for three days with ‘no access to food, water or medication’. Liverpool crown court heard that instead of visiting her, home care assistant Tracy Burrows, 56, sat outside Julie’s bungalow in her car for 20 seconds. She then allegedly told her trainee companion the woman was out and went to visit her own mother instead. Prosecutors claim Burrows lied to her boss, saying that she had looked through Julie’s home in St Helens, Merseyside and found nobody home.

[Oliver_W]

Jeez. I don't know if the "carer" technically broke the law but she shouldn't be allowed to continue in that line of work. If the disabled woman has any living family, I hope they pursue charges.

[bitontheslide]

what an awful way to go

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Jeez. I don't know if the "carer" technically broke the law but she shouldn't be allowed to continue in that line of work. If the disabled woman has any living family, I hope they pursue charges.

Yes she broke the law. It constitutes abuse what she did.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Jeez. I don't know if the "carer" technically broke the law but she shouldn't be allowed to continue in that line of work. If the disabled woman has any living family, I hope they pursue charges.

Manslaughter by negligence, I would have thought.

[Ammi]

...I don’t understand why her explanation was accepted by her bosses...someone who was not able to feed or clothe themselves or care for themselves in any way...had just ‘gone out’....and that was accepted at all...but it was accepted for days...?...

[Ammi]

...that’s extraordinary...

[Ammi]

...the fault in this should extend beyond the care worker, surely...so many would have known that an immobile person was not answering their door...(...apparently...)...so no one investigated../...the police weren’t called immediately...?...

[Ammi]

...that poor, poor woman...

[Kizzy]

Private social 'care', charge local authority a fortune for doing the bare minimum or not even that.. Poor woman, shocking inhumane treatment. That sadly isn't even that shocking now.

[Ammi]

...I was just reading...she had been to hospital for a check up and it was unclear..(..apparently...)...whether she had been discharged and was still in hospital care...as soon as it was realised she had been home for a few days, they did go immediately and find her...so sad and something that should never happen...

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Jeez. I don't know if the "carer" technically broke the law but she shouldn't be allowed to continue in that line of work. If the disabled woman has any living family, I hope they pursue charges.

I mean what?

[Amy Jade]

Absolutely disgusting.

Although the fact the bosses never checked up is weird, I am a home care assistant and we have to log if nobody is in or not answering the door and the next of kin are alerted.

[Cal.]

Absolutely horrendous. RIP x

[arista]

A link
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/10/disab...tead-10146336/

[Livia]

Had this been an elderly woman there would be no outrage because we wouldn't have heard about it. Elderly people are essentially killed off all the time, deprived of food, over-medicated... no one cares.

[Kizzy]

That's not true, any vulnerable person suffering would have caused a similar reaction in any rational compassionate person, and would be looking as to who failed in their care and why...

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...I don’t understand why her explanation was accepted by her bosses...someone who was not able to feed or clothe themselves or care for themselves in any way...had just ‘gone out’....and that was accepted at all...but it was accepted for days...?...

This.

Even if it happened on 1 visit. Did she not have daily visits if she couldn't access food and medication herself? To be left alone for 3 whole days is astonishing.

[Kizzy]

Looks like theyre trying to pass the buck to the hospital, thing is she wouldn't have been sent home if care wasn't arranged, that's what causes bed blocking.

[Ammi]

...and also someone would have taken her from her hospital appointment/visit back home...so was someone who was unable to care for themselves, just left alone..?...there must be many factors we don’t know...