Monday, December 10, 2007
Breaking News: Two Care Workers Arrested Over Five 'Murders'
Sky News - Two care workers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering five elderly people at a Somerset residential home.
It follows the deaths of four women and a man at the former Parkfields Care Residential Care Home in Butleigh.
Registered nurse Rachel Baker, 45, and her chef husband Leigh, 48, are being held in Yeovil.
The pair were initially questioned following the death of 97-year-old Lucy Cox on New Year's Day.
Detectives also decided to exhume the remains of several other former residents to establish whether they had been poisoned.
The remains of Nellie "Mary" Pickford, 89, were removed from Glastonbury Cemetery on June 5 while grandmother-of-four Marion Alder, 79, was exhumed from the graveyard of St Leonard's Church, Butleigh, a week later.
And the remains of Fred Green, 81, a grandfather of 10, were taken from a graveyard in the village of Kingweston, near Somerton, in rural Somerset, on July 11.
Three other residents, whose deaths were being treated as suspicious by officers, had already been cremated.
Answering bail, the Bakers were arrested on suspicion of the murder of four women and one man, theft and unlawful possession of controlled prescribed drugs and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Police spokesman Dan Mountain said: "Both arrests relate to ongoing inquiries into deaths at the former Parkfields Residential Care Home in Butleigh."
It follows the deaths of four women and a man at the former Parkfields Care Residential Care Home in Butleigh.Registered nurse Rachel Baker, 45, and her chef husband Leigh, 48, are being held in Yeovil.
The pair were initially questioned following the death of 97-year-old Lucy Cox on New Year's Day.
Detectives also decided to exhume the remains of several other former residents to establish whether they had been poisoned.
The remains of Nellie "Mary" Pickford, 89, were removed from Glastonbury Cemetery on June 5 while grandmother-of-four Marion Alder, 79, was exhumed from the graveyard of St Leonard's Church, Butleigh, a week later.
And the remains of Fred Green, 81, a grandfather of 10, were taken from a graveyard in the village of Kingweston, near Somerton, in rural Somerset, on July 11.
Three other residents, whose deaths were being treated as suspicious by officers, had already been cremated.
Answering bail, the Bakers were arrested on suspicion of the murder of four women and one man, theft and unlawful possession of controlled prescribed drugs and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Police spokesman Dan Mountain said: "Both arrests relate to ongoing inquiries into deaths at the former Parkfields Residential Care Home in Butleigh."
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