Private hospital workers in Crown Court over Winterbourne View scandal (From Gazette Series)

Private hospital workers in Crown Court over Winterbourne View scandal

11:07am Thursday 9th February 2012 in News By Alexandra Womack

ELEVEN people are in court today accused of mistreating patients at Winterbourne View private hospital in Hambrook.

The men and women are charged with ill treatment and neglect offences under the Mental Health Act.

They will all appear at Bristol Crown Court today.

They are Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate; Wayne Stuart Rogers, 31, of Kingswood; Alison Dove, 24, also of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Sooaklingum Appoo, 58, of Downend and Daniel Brake, 27, also of Downend, Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emersons Green. Also accused are Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough; Michael Onyema Ezenagu, 28, of White City, London and Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe, south Bristol.

The arrests follow a BBC Panormama programme, aired last May, which appeared to show patients being verbally and physically abused.

The hospital was shut down shortly afterwards and numerous reviews by the NHS, South Gloucestershire Council’s Safeguarding Adults’ Board and the government have followed.