Thursday, February 16, 2012

Nursing home fire suspect fronts court

Prosecutors have amassed more than 2700 pages of justification against a man charged with starting a Sydney nursing home glow which killed during slightest 11 elderly residents.Roger Dean, 35, did not appear in Sydney's Central Local Court upon Thursday but a family of one of a victims mustered a courage to attend upon behalf of Alma Smith, who perished in a blaze.Dean worked as a nurse during a facility and is charged with 10 counts of murder over two fires said to have broken out in apart wings of a Quakers Hill nursing home, in Sydney's northwest, last November.No charges have yet been laid over a 11th death.Three residents were killed during a blaze and an additional eight died from a effects in a following days.There are reports during slightest 10 other people from a home have died since a incident.The family of Ms Smith, 73, were in court and said a victims' family groups have remained in contact with one an additional since a Nov 18 disaster.'I think there's a lot of disappointment around for everybody,' Ms Smith's daughter Donna Austin told reporters outside court.'We're just confused, frustrated, hurt.'The court heard police have amassed 2700 pages of justification - described as a 'mountain of evidence' by Prosecutor Michael Day - as they go upon their box against Dean.Ms Austin welcomed a preference from Domain Principal Group, which owns a nursing home, which it will install glow sprinklers in all of a comforts which don't have them.Sprinklers were not required when a facility was built and were not required to be retro-fitted under a NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.Other states require older comforts to retro-fit.'I was quite surprised they didn't have sprinklers ... but then again you didn't exactly expect this to happen either,' Ms Austin said.A orator for Domain declined to criticism when asked about speculation a company would compensate family groups of a victims.Dean's matter will return to a same court upon Apr 19.Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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