Newton Aycliffe
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About Newton Aycliffe
Newton Aycliffe is a town in County Durham, England. Founded in 1947 under the New Towns Act of 1946, the town sits about five miles to the north of Darlington and ten miles to the south of the city of Durham.
Great North Run 2023: Thousands to embark on half marathon
... The centenarian, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, who walks about two miles a day to keep fit, is raising funds to support his local NHS Trust charity...
Whorlton Hall: Four guilty of ill-treating secure unit patients
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West Lane Hospital: Mental health care 'chaotic and unsafe'
... " Miss Harnett, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, took her own life at West Lane Hospital in June 2019 and Miss Sharif, from Middlesbrough, died there two months later...
Whorlton Hall: BBC film exposed staff cruelty, court told
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Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust prosecuted after three patients died
... Miss Harnett, from Newton Aycliffe Miss Moore, from Shildon, died after taking her own life at Lanchester Road Hospital in Durham in 2020...
West Lane Hospital: Government apologises after teenager deaths
... Miss Harnett, from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, took her own life at West Lane Hospital in June 2019 and Miss Sharif, from Middlesbrough, died there two months later...
West Lane: Teenagers died after failures at 'unstable' hospital
... Her stepfather Michael Harnett, from Newton Aycliffe, said patients had to " clean the blood up off their own walls from headbanging"...
Darlington boy youngest to be convicted of terrorist offence
... He was bailed and will be sentenced on 1 April at Newton Aycliffe Youth Court...
Whorlton Hall: Four guilty of ill-treating secure unit patients
Four carers have been found guilty of ill-treating patients at a secure hospital, following a BBC Panorama investigation.
Nine former staff at Whorlton Hall, near Barnard Castle , County Durham , had faced a total of 27 charges. Five of those On Trial have been cleared.
Prosecutors said defendants and mocked patients.
Lawyers for The Defendants had argued they had been doing their best in challenging circumstances.
Those found guilty will be sentenced In July .
The Specialist hospital for people with complex needs was privately run but funded by the NHS.
The Bbc sent undercover reporter Olivia Davies to work at The Unit for a Panorama documentary in 2019. Whorlton Hall has since closed.
Jurors at Teesside Crown Court delivered the mixed verdicts after Two Days of deliberation.
The Nine accused faced The Following number of charges of ill treatment of a person in care:
Bennett was found guilty of Two charges and cleared of One while Matthew Banner was found guilty on five counts and cleared of One .
Fuller was found guilty of Two counts but cleared of eight and Sanderson was found guilty of One but cleared of another.
Ms McGhee, Mr Lawton, Ms Mahmood, Mr Mellor and Sara Banner were found Not Guilty of all charges against them.
Some of The Defendants wept loudly as the verdicts were read out.
'Goading'Bennett was convicted for " deliberately referencing and snapping balloons" in The Presence of a female patient who did not like them.
Matthew Banner was guilty of ill-treating the same patient, who preferred female carers, by " threatening" that men would be sent to her room and making repeated references to balloons.
Sanderson was found guilty of threatening a male patient with violence and " goading him to fight".
Fuller was guilty of instructing another male patient to lie on the floor to demonstrate a restraint And Then simulating an assault on him by pretending to perform an " elbow drop" wrestling move from a chair.
He was also found guilty of " antagonising" another male patient and " encouraging" him to fight.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
