Safety-breach Shrewsbury care home under offer
An offer has been put in to buy a Shrewsbury care home that was fined for failings that led to the death of a 79-year-old great-grandmother.
The Hartlands Rest Home in Whitehall Street is on the market for £1.25 million. Christie & Co, which is conducting the sale, has revealed on its website that an offer has now gone in for the home.
D Roche Ltd, the firm which runs the home, was fined £100,000 after admitting two breaches of health and safety rules in connection with the death of resident Joan Bloore in March 2011.
Mrs Bloore died days after a fall while walking with staff from the rest home to buy bread from a nearby Spar shop using a walking frame – although she was viewed as a "high risk" of falls and needed a wheelchair when outdoors.
Last month the fine was cut to £70,000 by judges at London's Court of Appeal after the hearing was told that the original penalty imposed at Shrewsbury Crown Court had put the company in jeopardy after it went from a £41,000 profit in 2011 to losses of £31,000 at the end of the last financial year. The home has been on sale since last year.
