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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.