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BBC News Published 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...

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 n...

A CORONER has slammed the care given to six residents who died at a scandal-hit nursing home as he gave a withering summary of a catalogue of…

A coroner said the deaths of five residents at the Brithdir nursing home in New Tredegar, South Wales were contributed to by neglect.

Coroner slams 'dehumanising' care given to five residents who died of neglect at a scandal-hit nursing home where one elderly man was left looking like a 'prisoner of war' Geraint Williams accused owners and staff at Brithdir nursing home, South Wales of a 'gross betrayal of trust' He recorded narrative conclusions for five residents at an inquest today, with a sixth dying of natural causes They all suffered dehydration, malnourishment and pressure sores on their bodies between 2003 and 2005 The family of one victim spoke of their guilt in believing they could have done more to ease his suffe...