Care home prosecuted after vulnerable woman’s death
A care home has been fined £100k for health and safety failings which led to the death of an 85-year-old woman
St David’s Care Forfar Limited, who run St David’s Residential Home in Forfar, pled guilty to a health and safety at work breach committed in January 2017.
The procurator fiscal depute told Dundee Sheriff Court that on 12 January 2017, Georgina Norrie, a resident at St David’s, was allowed to wander out of the home and subsequently died of hypothermia.
Ms. Norrie had learning difficulties and dementia and was known to wander within the home at night.
Her room was fitted with a motion sensor to alert staff when there was movement in her room. The alarm did not activate when she left her room as a piece of tape had been applied to the sensor.