Megan Haines
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Megan Haines is a South African-born[2] former nurse who murdered two residents at an Australian nursing home in May 2014.
Background
After coming to Australia, Haines began work in nursing homes at least eight years prior to the crimes.[3] 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.[2][3] In April 2014 she began work at the St Andrews Village nursing home in Ballina, on the North Coast of New South Wales.[2]
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.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Megan Haines: Ex-nurse sentenced to 36 years in jail for murder of elderly women by insulin overdose - Lucy Carter for ABC, December 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Nurse Megan Haines knew more than she had been told after Ballina nursing home deaths, court told - Ava Benny-Morrison for The Sydney Morning Herald, republished in Port News, October 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Megan Haines jailed for 27 years for murdering patients at Ballina nursing home - Josh Dye for The Sydney Morning Herald, December 2016
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