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image captionStanley Bradford, June Hamer, Evelyn Jones and Edith Evans were all residents at Brithdir
Residents at a care home were dehumanised by staff and the standards of care were wholly inadequate , an inquest has found.
The deaths of six residents at Brithdir Nursing Home from 2003-2005 in New Tredegar, Caerphilly, eventually triggered a police investigation.
Coroner Geraint Williams said residents were warehoused , meaning they are simply kept, fed and watered .
The evidence suggested even the feeding and watering was inadequate .
Stanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 were all residents at the home.
A coroner has criticised the care given to residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he highlighted a withering catalogue of failings – accusing managers of “dehumanising” and “warehousing” the elderly.
Assistant Gwent Coroner Geraint Williams said the deaths of five residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales, were contributed to by neglect.
He accused the owners and staff at the home of a “gross betrayal of the trust” placed in them by families of the residents by keeping them in the dark over the poor standards of care.
Mr Williams recorded narrative conclusions for June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71. He said Stanley James, 89, died of natural causes.
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