Council fined £80,000 over death of care home patient

A COUNCIL has been fined following the “preventable” death of a dementia patient who went missing from a care home during the night.

- BY LUCINDA CAMERON

Allan MacLeod, 69, disappeared from his bedroom at St Brendan's Care Home in Castlebay, on the Isle of Barra, in the early hours of March 9 last year without staff realising.

He was found near the home about four hours later with facial injuries consistent with falling. He died in hospital.