David Holyoak News Today

SUPERMARKET worker David Holyoak spent hours reading detective novels during the frequent breaks from his trial at Carlisle Crown Court.

A NATIONAL charity which campaigns to end abuse of the elderly says the Dorothy Morgan manslaughter case is the "tip of an iceberg".

Robert Morgan and David Holyoak, from Cumbria, have been put behind bars after they let Dorothy Morgan, 71, drop to four-and-a-half-stone before they sought medical attention, which came too late

A court heard Dorothy was admitted to hospital as she weighed four and a half stone, was malnourished, dehydrated and suffering from infected bedsores.

Frail Dorothy Morgan, 71, weighed just four-and-a-half stone when she was finally admitted to hospital in January 2021.

A WHITEHAVEN husband and his stepson have been jailed for  "gross negligence" manslaughter after they failed to intervene to help a…

The killer denied his wife water and watched her wither away to just four stone, when she was found covered in her own urine and faeces.

Robert Morgan (pictured) was convicted of killing 71-year-old Dorothy Morgan who caught gangrene and died from sepsis after being left covered in her own urine and faeces.

Dorothy Morgan, 71, died in her own filth during lockdown at the hands of her evil husband Robert Morgan, 61, who left the four stone victim lying her own urine and faeces.

A JURY has delivered majority guilty verdicts on two Whitehaven men who had denied the manslaughter through “gross negligence” of a…