A carer failed to visit a wheelchair-bound man to assist him with his usual nightly routine due to a “mix up” with the rosters and he was found dead the next day, a Perth inquest has heard. Leslie Troy Ovens, 32, was living independently in a purpose-built house with his care provided by Cam Can and Associates when he died in July 2013. The West Australian Coroner’s Court heard on Wednesday carers routinely visited Mr Ovens twice a day – in the morning and night. At 5pm on July 24, carer Tony McCabe visited the house and made Mr Ovens dinner, even though he wasn’t on shift. Mr McCabe testified Mr Ovens told him he was unsure who was coming to assist him that night. “I said ‘somebody will be coming, don’t worry’,” he told the court. But no one did.
