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13/08/2013
Eleven Arrested Over Care Home Death
Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, following the death of an 86-year-old woman who had been living at a care home in Nottingham.
Ivy Atkin died on 22 November 2012, shortly after she moved out of Autumn Grange care home in Sherwood Rise.
Nottinghamshire police said five men aged 77, 44, 64, 56 and 37, and six women aged 52, 25, 19, 29, 20 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter as part of an inquiry into the standard of care provided at the home.
The eleven people are being questioned by detectives.
Police are working closely with partner agencies to establish if any criminal offences took place.
(IT/CD)
Ivy Atkin died on 22 November 2012, shortly after she moved out of Autumn Grange care home in Sherwood Rise.
Nottinghamshire police said five men aged 77, 44, 64, 56 and 37, and six women aged 52, 25, 19, 29, 20 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter as part of an inquiry into the standard of care provided at the home.
The eleven people are being questioned by detectives.
Police are working closely with partner agencies to establish if any criminal offences took place.
(IT/CD)
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