Northumbria Police have launched a murder investigation
following the deaths of three women at a private care home in
Gateshead.
A female care worker was arrested on suspicion of murder and
later released on bail following the death of Alice Grant at Aidan
House earlier this month. A post-mortem showed Grant died due to
the unlawful administration of drugs. Two more deaths of the home's
residents are being investigated and one body has been exhumed.
Andrea Spence, manager of owners Manor Care Home Group, said
everyone was "devastated." Detective Superintendent Chris Symonds
said: "There is no evidence to suggest any link between the deaths
but we have to examine the circumstances in which these two women
died."