A NSW aged care worker who predicted the deaths of three elderly dementia patients in text messages to a colleague has been found guilty of their murder and attempted murder. Garry Steven Davis, 29, worked at SummitCare aged care home in Newcastle in October 2013 when, over 48 hours, three residents were rushed to hospital with hypothermia and hypoglycaemia. Doctors found lethal amounts of insulin in the blood of Gwen Fowler, 83, Ryan Kelly, 80, and Audrey Manuel, 91. Mrs Fowler and Mr Kelly died and Ms Manuel survived but died of other causes a while later. Davis pleaded not guilty to murder and attempted murder but on Wednesday, Supreme Court Justice Robert Allan Hulme found him guilty on all counts. Justice Hulme explained the case was a circumstantial one and that he had eliminated all other visitors, staff and residents at SummitCare. Davis’s text messages to a colleague predicting his victims’ deaths formed part of the damning evidence, he said.
