Aster Healthcare pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter after Frances Norris died in 2015 suffering from burns

The owners of a care home where a 93-year-old woman died after being scalded in a bath have been fined £1.04m by a judge who handed suspended prison sentences to its former manager and a member of staff.

Aster Healthcare had pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter after the death of Frances Norris, a dementia patient who died in 2015 days after being placed into a bath, at a cost-cutting and “grossly negligent” nursing home.

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