THE FAMILY of a 94 year-old woman who died after being neglected at her nursing home have welcomed news there will be an inquest.
Molly Darby had spent a month at the Beeches Care Home in Wath when admitted to Barnsley Hospital, where she died, in August last year. She had a chest infection, pneumonia, septicaemia, a urinary tract infection and other conditions.
Earlier this year an investigation by Rotherham Council concluded Molly had been neglected and three of her seven children, Jim, Ray and Joe, who have been campaigning for changes in procedures, welcomed an inquest. Jim, of Oaklea Avenue, West Melton said: "Hopefully with an inquest we will get some of our questions answered and at last we might get a solution.
"At the end of the day somebody was responsible and no body has actually being held responsible. Although they have done these visits and are going to do them more frequently, so they say, it is sweeping things under the carpet at the moment.
"There are a lot of people in care homes, they are necessary places but people in there, at the back end of their life, deserve to be treated properly."
