THIRTEEN CONVICTED OVER DEVON CARE HOME ABUSE – VIELSTONE CARE HOME NEAR BIDEFORD AND SISTER HOME GATOOMA NEAR HOLSWORTHY, DEVON
Prosecutor Andrew Langdon QC said staff tried to correct residents’ behaviour as if they would train an animal.He spent 195 sessions in a ‘quiet room’, including 13 overnight stays He said: “The prosecution say that each of them was effectively imprisoned in that room against their will." “It was not a one-off but organised and systemic abuse of people with learning disabilities – vulnerable members of society who were residents in homes that were meant to care for them.” The incidents took place at both Vielstone and its sister home Gatooma near Holsworthy.
"Residents were held in punishment rooms at Vielstone care home."
