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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
After coming to Australia, | Haines managed to obtain permanent Australian residency.<ref name=ABCbail>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-30/ballina-nurse-megan-haines-refused-bail/6434876 Ballina nurse Megan Haines charged with murdering two nursing home patients refused bail] - Karl Hoerr writing for ABC, April 2015</ref> After coming to Australia, she began work in nursing homes at least eight years prior to the crimes.<ref name=SMHjailed>[http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/megan-haines-jailed-for-27-years-for-murdering-patients-at-ballina-nursing-home-20161216-gtchbb.html Megan Haines jailed for 27 years for murdering patients at Ballina nursing home] - Josh Dye for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', December 2016</ref> While in the Australian state of Victoria she became embroiled in three separate misconduct allegations and her nursing licence was restricted so she could only practice nursing if her employer gave six-monthly progress reports on her.<ref name=SMHknew/><ref name=SMHjailed/> In April 2014 she began work at the St Andrews Village nursing home in Ballina, on the North Coast of New South Wales.<ref name=SMHknew/> The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has records of Haines registered as a nurse in Ballina since February 10, 2012.<ref name=StarAppears/> | ||
She was soon the subject of further complaints. Marie Darragh, 82, told St Andrews Village boss Wendy Turner "I needed some cream applied to my fanny ... and I asked her to apply some cream to which Megan said cover yourself up you look disgusting, switched the light off and left." Darragh said this was the only time she had ever met Haines. Isabella Spencer, 77, said Haines would not take her to use the bathroom and to instead "piss in her pad". A third, unnamed, resident complained of rough treatment.<ref name=ABCsentence/><!--All the complaint details are in this one reference--> | She was soon the subject of further complaints. Marie Darragh, 82, told St Andrews Village boss Wendy Turner "I needed some cream applied to my fanny ... and I asked her to apply some cream to which Megan said cover yourself up you look disgusting, switched the light off and left." Darragh said this was the only time she had ever met Haines. Isabella Spencer, 77, said Haines would not take her to use the bathroom and to instead "piss in her pad". A third, unnamed, resident complained of rough treatment.<ref name=ABCsentence/><!--All the complaint details are in this one reference--> | ||
==Murders== | ==Murders== | ||
Upon arrival for a May 9, 2014 night shift at St Andrews Village Haines was informed of the complaints by Darragh and Spencer, and that a third complaint was pending.<ref name=SMHjailed/> Darragh and Spencer were found unresponsive by staff the following morning from apparent strokes.<ref name=SMHjailed/> A May 13 meeting was meanwhile set up between Haines and her managers to discuss the complaints against her.<ref name=SMHknew/> Routine tests showed insulin had been injected into both victims, poisoning them, and on May 15 detectives arrived at Haines's home to search it and question her.<ref name=SMHknew/> | Upon arrival for a May 9, 2014 night shift at St Andrews Village Haines was informed of the complaints by Darragh and Spencer, and that a third complaint was pending.<ref name=SMHjailed/> Darragh and Spencer were found unresponsive by staff the following morning from apparent strokes.<ref name=SMHjailed/> Emergency services rushed to the scene but both died before help arrived.<ref name=StarAppears/> A third resident, Marjorie Patterson, 88, complained of waking during the same night to find Haines assaulting her by giving her unneeded painkillers.<ref name=ABCbail/><ref name=StarAppears/> A May 13 meeting was meanwhile set up between Haines and her managers to discuss the complaints against her.<ref name=SMHknew/> Routine tests showed insulin had been injected into both victims, poisoning them, and on May 15 detectives arrived at Haines's North Coast home to search it and question her.<ref name=SMHknew/> Detectives from Sydney's homicide team and Richmond Local Area Command combined forces to form Strike Force Odimi to investigate the attacks on sleeping elderly women.<ref name=StarAppears/> | ||
==Legal process== | |||
After an investigation which included surveillance of Haines's phone calls<ref name=SMHknew/> the killer was arrested by plain clothes officers in an unmarked car on July 7; she did not resist and walked willingly to the car.<ref>[https://www.northernstar.com.au/videos/police-footage-arrest-megan-haines/23067/ Police footage of the arrest of Megan Haines], ''The Northern Star'', July 2014</ref> At that time she was in Seaspray, Victoria and local police arrested her, with a court hearing at Melbourne's Magistrates Court the following day beginning the extradition process back to New South Wales.<ref name=StarAppears>[https://www.northernstar.com.au/news/woman-arrested-over-ballina-nursing-home-murders/2311557/ Former nurse appears in court over nursing home deaths] - Rebecca Lollback, "rstevens<sup>[sic]</sup>" and Marnie Johnston writing for ''The Northern Star'', July 2014</ref> Magistrate Duncan Reynolds ordered her extradited and to receive treatment for depression.<ref name=StarAppears/> | |||
==Trial and evidence== | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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