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Arrest over alleged Old Deanery Care Home abuse | Arrest over alleged Old Deanery Care Home abuse |
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A woman has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a resident at an Essex care home after an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. | |
The woman, in her 40s, was held on Friday by police probing alleged abuse at the Old Deanery in Braintree. | |
Seven staff have been sacked from the home, run by Anglia Retirement Homes Ltd, after Panorama appeared to show a resident with dementia being hit. | |
The arrested woman has been released on bail pending further inquiries. | |
Essex Police launched an investigation after the programme appeared to show residents being taunted, roughly handled, ignored and left in their own excrement at the 93-bed home, which costs up to £700 a week. | |
A police spokesman said: "Essex Police were denied an advance viewing of the programme so were only able to begin an investigation following its nationwide broadcast on Wednesday. | |
"Officers arrested a woman in her 40s at her home in Braintree on suspicion of assaulting a resident at the care home before being released on police bail until later this month pending further inquiries." | |
Anglia Retirement Homes Ltd released a statement after the documentary was aired in which it insisted the incidents involved only a small number of staff and said the company did not tolerate this kind of behaviour. | |
It said that after initially suspending eight members of staff when the allegations first came to light, six had been been dismissed and a further case is being urgently reviewed. | |
The care worker believed to be responsible for slapping the resident was dismissed earlier in the week. |