'Enormous relief' for family as trio plead guilty to neglect charges over OAP's death

FAMILY OF STROKE VICTIM SHIRLEY, 84, WELCOME PLEAS

- By MARTIN NAYLOR

THREE people have admitted charges in relation to the death of an 84-year-old stroke victim who died following a fall at a Derby nursing home.

Prabina Thapa and Nakeeba Akhtar both pleaded guilty to wilful neglect and perverting the course of justice while Amar Muneer admitted wilful neglect on the first day of what was to be their trial at Derby Crown Court.

A jury of six men and six women sworn in on Monday to try the defendants was discharged by Judge Martin Hurst after the guilty pleas were entered.

The trio, led by Lindsay Foster, the then-manager of Mickleover-based New Lodge Care Home, all failed in their duties to protect Shirley Froggett who died in what the victim's family previously called "a terrible, agonising death."

She was partially paralysed and should have been strapped into her wheelchair at the time of the incident but the restraints were insufficient, a hearing in 2022 was told.

Mrs Froggett was found on the floor in the lounge area of the home. Foster allowed the pensioner, who was paralysed down her left side following a stroke, to be taken back to her room and then failed to call for medical attention.