Bristol nursing home owner found guilty of elder abuse
October 14, 2008
A nursing home owner's career and reputation have been left in tatters after he was found guilty of assaulting an elderly resident in his care.
Danny Purgaus was convicted of attacking 80-year-old Ronald Thomas at the Overnhill House residential home in Downend.
A court heard Purgaus grabbed Mr Thomas by the collar, pulled him from his seat and dragged him across the home's lounge floor to an electric fire after he complained of being cold and asked for it to be turned on.
Purgaus, who has 39 years experience in nursing, told North Avon Magistrates' Court yesterday that "not in a million years" would he have attacked Mr Tho
mas.
He said that he was "very proud" of the care that he had given him.
But presiding magistrate Robert Sheppard and his colleagues decided Purgaus was not a credible witness and that he had been "vague and contradictory" with his evidence.
Family members and the home's former staff celebrated in the public gallery when Purgaus was found guilty of assaulting Mr Thomas by beating between last December and January this year.
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SOURCE: Evening Post - Bristol,England,UK
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