Killer nurse’s CV not checked: inquest

Original article by Paul Bibby
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 9 : 9-Sep-14

New South Wales Deputy Coroner Hugh Dillon has begun the inquest into the deaths of 11 nursing home patients in late 2011, killed in a fire set by nurse Roger Dean. The Coroner’s Court has been told that the drug addict supplied just two references, one by his lover at the time, and that managers at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home checked neither. He was then put in charge of the night shift and had ready access to opioid painkillers. No reports were made to any disciplinary or registered body either about previous misconduct by Dean at St John of God Hospital and St George Hospital

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