Three nursing home workers in Derby plead guilty to offences after a woman fell from a wheelchair and broke her leg
84 year old Shirley Froggett died of pneumonia in November 2018 weeks after the fall
Three nursing home workers have pleaded guilty to offences after an 84-year-old woman fell from a wheelchair she was not strapped into and broke her leg.
Shirley Froggett, 84, died of pneumonia in November 2018 at the New Lodge Nursing Home in Mickleover, Derby, after suffering a broken femur in the fall weeks earlier.
Mrs Froggett's wheelchair did not have a functioning lap belt when she fell.
Nakeeba Akhtar, 33, Amar Muneer, 47, and 37-year-old Prabina Thapa, entered guilty pleas at Derby Crown Court on Tuesday on what would have been the first day of their trial.
Muneer, of Blackpool Street, Burton-on-Trent, who was a nurse at the home, admitted a count of wilful neglect by a care worker between September 18 and September 21 2018.
Akhtar, of St Chads Road, Stoke-on-Trent, and Thapa, of Bartley Wilson Way, Cardiff, who had been carers at the home, both admitted perverting the course of justice by making false statements between September 18 and December 5 2018.
The defendants are not alleged to have caused the pensioner's death.
Care home manager Lindsey Foster, 43, of St John's Road, Stoke-on-Trent, pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice at a previous court hearing.
New Lodge Nursing Care Ltd and Foster were fined at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court in 2022 for failing to provide safe care and treatment to a resident.
A jury of six men and six women sworn in on Monday morning to try the defendants was discharged by Judge Martin Hurst after the guilty pleas were entered.
The defendants were told they will be sentenced on February 6 and granted unconditional bail.