UK: Jail for ‘twisted’ addict nurse Rachel Baker who killed patient, 97

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'The manager of a care home whose drug addiction led directly to the death of an elderly patient was jailed today for ten years.

Rachel Baker, 44, stole patients’ drugs, forged medical records and then lied to investigators looking into a series of suspicious deaths of residents of Parkfields, a residential home in Butleigh, Somerset.

The investigation led to the exhumation of the bodies of three former residents to the distress of their families. Police investigated the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 12 of Baker’s patients and charged her with the murder of two.

After a ten-week trial during which the extent of Baker’s addiction to prescription drugs was revealed she was convicted only of the manslaughter of 97-year-old Lucy Cox. She was found not guilty of the manslaughter of another elderly woman, Francis Hay, and not guilty of murdering the two women.'