Three people who were found guilty of ill-treating residents at Briarwood Rest Home in Lostock Hall have today (Friday October 2) been sentenced at Preston Crown Court.

The owners of the care home, Indranee Pumbien, 58, and her husband Meghadeven Pumbien, 62, both of Grosvenor Place, Preston and their employee Niphawan Berry, 41, of Christ Church Street, Preston were all convicted of being a carer involved in the ill treatment and wilful neglect of a person with lack of capacity contrary to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 following a six week trial which ended in August this year.

Indranee Pumbien was jailed for 18 months after she was found guilty of three offences. Meghadeven Pumbien was jailed for nine months after he was found guilty of one offence and Niphawan Berry was jailed for five months after she was also found guilty of one offence.

Police launched an investigation into Briarwood Rest Home on Todd Lane South, Lostock Hall in June 2014 after they were made aware of a complaint about the treatment of a resident at the home.

The convictions relate to the mistreatment of two residents, a 99 year old woman and an 80 year old man.

All three defendants were found guilty of failing to seek immediate medical treatment for a 99 year old female resident who had suffered scolds to her legs. Indranee Pumbien was also found to have force fed the two residents.

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Vijay Bundhun, 42, took advantage of his victims “when they were at their most vulnerable” in a sickening breach of trust.

The health worker, whose actions were branded “despicable” by investigating police, was first accused of sexually assaulting a patient in her 20s.

He persuaded the woman to let him give her a massage before he attacked her while her child was in the room, Maidstone Crown Court heard.

Another victim told police how Bundhun, of Canterbury in Kent, assaulted her while she was undergoing treatment and taking strong medication.

She said she was not able to fully understand what was happening to her at the time.

Bundhun was also found guilty of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at an address in Canterbury.

The married father denied was any sexual contact the victims but they all came forward independently – three after reading about him in a newspaper.

Judge Michael Carroll said after committing some of the attacks Bundhun believed he was untouchable.

He told him: “You are guilty of the grossest breach of trust as a professional health carer that is possible to imagine in respect of two victims.”

The court heard he forced a ‘tongue massage’ on one victim in which he licked her neck, back and bare breast.

She reported it to police and Bundhun’s DNA was recovered from swabs.

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Carers who concocted a lie to explain away a pensioner’s fall at a Birmingham nursing home and then delayed raising the alarm have been spared jail with relatives calling the sentence “appalling”.

Sabrina Duncan and Benter Ouma were handed a community order with unpaid work after admitting negligence over the incident at The Green Nursing Home involving 85-year-old Norah Boyle.

Duncan, aged 40 and a full-time staff member at the time, and agency worker Ouma, aged 32, were not responsible for the fall but were grossly negligent in their response, Birmingham Crown Court heard.

Mrs Boyle suffered a head injury in the fall as she slipped from a hoist while being put to bed by the care workers, and died 23 days later in hospital after developing pneumonia.

Her daughter, 57-year-old Ellen Boyle, said: “I’m appalled that that’s what they got for what happened to my mum, and what they didn’t do.

“I’m appalled that my mother’s life is only worth 12 months of a community order.”

Sentencing the two at the city court, Judge Mark Wall QC said it was a tragedy that as a result of their actions “there has been a lengthy investigation into what happened and a delay in the ability of her family to make arrangements for her funeral”.

Mr Wall ordered Duncan, of Albion Road, in Sutton in Surrey, and Ouma, of Summerfield Crescent in Edgbaston, Birmingham to each carry out 160 hours of unpaid work.

The judge said: “This is a tragic case because the person who was in your care and about whom this case involved, Norah Boyle, has died.

“It is obvious to me from the statement of her daughter Ellen Boyle that she was a deeply-loved woman and is now greatly missed.

“It is tragic, of course, that the circumstances of her death meant there has been a lengthy investigation into what happened and a delay in the ability of her family to make arrangements for her funeral.

“I must make it clear before sentencing that the prosecution have never brought a case to court based on fact either of you were responsible for her death.”

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Pressure was growing last night for an inquiry into vetting failures that allowed a nurse to kill two patients and poison scores more in an NHS hospital.

Victorino Chua, a 49-year-old father of two, attacked the very people he was supposed to be caring for. At the height of his poisoning spree, police even considered shutting down Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport.

Police believe the ‘narcissistic psychopath’ from the Philippines used forged qualifications to register as a nurse here. They even suspect that someone might have sat his nursing exam for him in his homeland.

Ahead of Chua’s sentencing today there were calls for a public inquiry and a review of how foreign nurses are recruited.

It can also be revealed that:

• Chua graduated from a nursing college now shut down amid concerns about its poor standards and finances;
• Lax vetting – including acceptance of photocopied documents – allowed him to register as a nurse in the UK;
• No checks were made with his employers at the Philippines hospital which he left after being accused of theft;
• Detectives fear Chua may have claimed the lives of other patients both here and in the Philippines;
• The trade in fake nursing qualifications that can be bought for as little as £43;
• Occupational therapists at Stepping Hill Hospital failed to raise concerns about Chua’s deteriorating mental state in the run-up to the poisonings;
• Victims of the poisonings are in line for millions of pounds in compensation payments from Chua’s NHS hospital trust;
• Chua, who became a British citizen in 2008, could use human rights laws to avoid deportation.

Last night, the recently retired prosecutor who helped bring Chua to justice said he believes there could be hundreds of nurses using fake qualifications in UK hospitals..

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A family doctor cut a hole in a Lynx shampoo bottle so he could film men using the showers in the gym.

Dr Omar Saadi Al-Atraqchi, 42, faces being struck off the medical register making him unable to continue working at the Custom House Surgery in Newham, East London as well as other surgeries in North London after he was found with the footage.

The urology specialist cut peepholes in Lynx bottles and emptied and dried them so he could hide his iPhone inside to film through the hole. He then slid the device under the partition of shower cubicles so he could secretly film men next door to him.

But Al-Atraqchi was caught out twice – once when a man noticed a glint of a camera through a bottle, and again when a fitness instructor became suspicious when he heard plastic being rustled and saw a Lynx bottle appear in his shower cubicle.

The doctor said he had set up the intricate device to ‘let off steam’ because of the pressure at work, and claimed he also felt isolated and confused about his sexuality.

Al-Atraqchi pleaded guilty to four counts of voyeurism and was fined £500, and ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £25 when he appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court.

He now faces a hearing to determine whether he will be struck off the medical register after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing in Manchester found him guilty of misconduct and told his ability to practise medicine had been impaired.

Two of the incidents took place at Pure Gym in Holloway. A spokesman for the gym said security had now been stepped up and Al-Atraqchi had been banned from all Pure Gyms for life.

In the first incident, in March last year, the Iraqi GP was found out when a naked gym user noticed a shower gel bottle being moved under the exposed area at the bottom of the cubicle and spotted a man’s hand moving the bottle around as if to re-position it. He also saw a hole in the top and a camera lens exposed in the hole.

He knocked loudly on the shower wall and shouted at the doctor who then pulled the shower gel bottle away and fled.

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A hospital nurse murdered three patients and poisoned 18 others by contaminating saline bags and ampoules with insulin, a court heard.

Victorino Chua, 49, also deliberately altered the dosages on prescription charts while working as a staff nurse at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Manchester Crown Court was told.

In all, 21 patients suffered as a result of his actions with three of them murdered, Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Derek Weaver, 83, jurors heard.

Chua, a Filipino who first came to the UK in 2002 and had worked at Stepping Hill since 2009, sat in the dock listening impassively as Peter Wright QC, began outlining the prosecution case against him.

Chua has pleaded not guilty to 36 charges in all, including the three alleged murders.

The other charges are made up of, one count of grievous bodily harm with intent, 23 counts of attempted grievous bodily harm, eight counts of attempting to cause a poison to be administered and one count of administering a poison.

All of the offences are said to have happened between June 2011 and January 2012.

Mr Wright said following a massive police investigation a ‘pattern’ began to emerge and the killer was identified.

He told the jury of 10 men and two women: ‘The pieces of the forensic jigsaw began to emerge.

‘The person responsible for each of these matters became increasingly clear. It was, we say, Victorino Chua.

‘As the investigation intensified, the common denominator, the defendant, was shown in sharper and sharper relief.

‘Motive for this course of conduct, whomsoever is responsible, is difficult to determine with precision.

‘Only the person responsible could ever know why they would embark on such conduct.’

Mr Wright said it was the prosecution’s job to prove Chua was responsible, not to say exactly why, or ‘what caused him to turn from a man who had dedicated his life to caring for others, to harming them’.

Chua had worked on two wards, A1 and A3, at the hospital – but it was a ‘lottery’ as to which patients were harmed, with the saline bags and ampoules contaminated with insulin by him to then be used by other unsuspecting doctors and nurses on innocent patients.

The prosecutor continued: ‘In the vast majority of cases, the poisoner seems to have contaminated products or altered prescription dosages completely at random.

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A nurse whose identity is being hidden but who has a brown neck, has admitted to killing thirty patients because he was bored and wanted to show off his resuscitation skills.

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A German nurse today admitted to killing 30 patients in his care because he was ‘bored’ and wanted to show off his ‘excellent’ resuscitation skills.

Nils. H., 38, is being tried for three specimen murders by injecting patients with a dangerous medicine.

The ex-nurse went on trial in Oldenburg in northern Germany in September and today claimed responsibility for dozens of deaths at the clinic he worked at.

After he was arrested, the nurse explained to police ‘I was bored’ – and prosecutors say he was keen to show off his CPR skills.

According to the prosecution, if the first attempt at resuscitation was a success, he would sometimes make a second attempt.

The nurse, whose full name is withheld under German privacy laws, used Gilurytmal, a medication which should only be used by doctors under strict supervision, it was said.

Side effects include an irregular heartbeat, a drop in blood pressure and uncoordinated functioning of the heart muscle.

Though the nurse is facing charges over three murders and two attempted murders, the state prosecutor said he could be involved in more than 150 deaths.

In cooperation with the police, the state prosecutor is currently investigating the deaths of 174 patients who died during Nils. H.’s shifts at a clinic in Delmenhorst, near Bremen, between 2003 and 2005.

The investigators will also look into deaths at Nils. H.’s previous jobs in Oldenburg and Wilhelmshaven and dozens of bodies will be exhumed.

In 2008, Nils. H. was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years for the attempted murder of another patient.

He gave his patient an overdose of heart medication, with the man narrowly escaping death.

Despite 100,000 competent British students applying to be trained as nurses, the government is refusing to take on any more than 20,000 a year and is insisting on importing sub-standard foreigners for the position instead.

Figures released on Tuesday showed that 4 out of 5 nurses are now hired from abroad, with almost 6,000 recruited from overseas in just last year alone – a four-fold increase on the previous year.

Instead of investing the time and money on our own people who care about us and speak our language, the traitors in power would rather cut corners and employ third rate shysters who hate us from elsewhere.

For the £70,000 that it costs to train a White nurse in Britain, the government can get three witch-doctors qualified in Limpopo and enrich the NHS with diversity at the same time.

Who cares that they cannot speak the language and dont know an appendix from a uterus, they have a badly spelled piece of paper that says they have a degree in nursing and that is all that matters.

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There are fears that severe staffing shortages are leading managers to lower the bar for recruits’ English skills.

Dr Carter told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that it was ‘totally unacceptable’ for hospitals not to give proper English tests.

And Dr Wollaston criticised the ‘yo-yo of recruitment’, adding: ‘It’s time for [training] schemes to deliver on the right numbers of nurses and doctors for today’s NHS and increase the opportunities for the thousands of British applicants.’

In the past, training nurses was far cheaper because they could learn as apprentices in hospitals. But a system brought in during the 1990s required all nurses to have a degree.

Last month the Mail visited a recruitment fair in Porto, Portugal, where Bedford Hospital hired 25 nurses. They were offered contracts without any formal English tests and some were even given help filling in the application form.

Meanwhile, readers have told the MailOnline website of their own families’ difficulties with finding jobs in the NHS. One man wrote that his wife worked at a hospital in Devon but left in 2004 to start a family.

She tried to return to the NHS after taking a refresher course, but was unable to find a job.

At one interview she was one of 13 candidates for five jobs, which all went to EU nurses.

Another said her daughter, a nurse, found jobs ‘were all filled by overseas candidates. She had no choice but to work in the private sector.’

A third said: ‘My English granddaughter is desperate to train to be a midwife.

‘She has passed English and Maths GCSE, but still has to take a test in these subjects before she can even get an interview at a university.’

A Department of Health spokesman said there were 5,000 more nurses on wards than in May 2010 and 1,000 extra training places this year. The department has started a £5million campaign to get retired nurses back to work.

It seems to me that most people would rather have someone who they are genetically close to serve them when they are ill or injured, as human beings simply feel more comfortable around such persons.  At the very least, on a basic practical level, you would think people would prefer the health worker with the highest possible IQ.

So, once again, you have decisions being made against common sense, against the interests of the people, against economic interests, probably against other forms of interest as well, for the sole purpose of damaging the cultural and racial fabric of Britain.

Andrew Anglin contributed to this report.

An anaesthetist who was branded ‘the octopus’ for his wandering hands and lewd comments could be jailed for groping nurses at the hospital where he worked.

Dr Niaz Ahmed passed off his behaviour as innocent banter and was referred to as a ‘sex pest’ by prosecutors at Newcastle Crown Court.

The skilled doctor, who had received numerous warnings from hospital bosses to tone down his behaviour, was convicted of sexually assaulting two of his colleagues more than a decade ago and must now sign the sex offenders register.

Ahmed, who was suspended from medical practice at a tribunal earlier this year for groping a nurse who was treating him after an accident in 2010, was cleared of three similar charges.

Michael Hodson, prosecuting, said: ‘Imagine what it was like going to work with a sex pest, always the octopus, hands all over the place, underlined by innuendo.’

Mr Hodson said one nurse victim was targeted in the scrub room at the hospital, where Ahmed squeezed her bottom and asked her ‘do you fancy it’.

Another had her breasts prodded by the medic while she was at work and said he had told her ‘put them away’.

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A carer admitted hitting a vulnerable teenager with learning difficulties on the head after he was caught on a secret camera the boy’s parents had put up in his room.

Zak Rowlands, 19, is the size of a 12-year-old and suffers from autism and severe learning difficulties. He was born with a chromosome disorder.

His parents decided to install a secret camera in the care home in Lancashire where he was living after they noticed their son was flinching every time he was approached.

Stanley Nkenko, 35, admitted assaulting the teenager after he was caught on camera hitting him in his room at Oxen Barn specialist care home in Leyland in Lancashire.

Mr Rowlands’ parents had noticed that Zak had started flinching when he returned home to spend time with his family.

They decided to install the camera secretly in his room at the care home.

When Zak’s father Tom Rowlands viewed the footage it showed Nkenko slapping him twice across the back of his head as he put him to bed on May 21.

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