Arrests follow five-month investigation into alleged incidents at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest, Lancaster.
Six people have been arrested over alleged mistreatment and neglect of residents in a care home for the elderly. The arrests follow a five-month investigation into a number of reported incidents at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest, Lancaster. Officers were called to the home in May following a complaint from staff.
The mistreatment is said to have taken place within the home's challenging behaviour unit – which cares for vulnerable adults with advanced Alzheimer's, police said.
Two men, aged 34 and 26, and four women aged 26, 27, 53 and 59 were detained on Wednesday at separate addresses in Lancaster and Morecambe. It is understood that some of those arrested are no longer employed at the nursing home, four are suspended, one has resigned and one has left the profession.
