A Mt Sheridan man who moved in with his elderly mother after she was diagnosed with dementia has denied he stole thousands of dollars from her account. Kevin James Singleton, 46, has pleaded not guilty to wrongly taking $237,000 from his mother Beverley Tipo’s account over two years. The Cairns District Court heard yesterday that Singleton, along with his wife and three children, moved in to care for his mother in late 2012. He was charged with fraud less than three years later when, the court heard, his brother Vernon got hold of his mother’s bank statements and saw dozens of cash withdrawals, along with transfers from her superannuation.
November 3, 2016
An application for approval of the Disability Living Incorporated Enterprise Agreement 2016 (s.185 – Application for approval of a single-enterprise agreement) will be determined by Commissioner Saunders in the Fair Work Commission at Terrace Tower 80 William Street East Sydney.
November 2, 2016
Critical care patients at St John of God Hospital in Mt Lawley were transferred to neighbouring hospitals after a fire forced a mass evacuation overnight. About 80 patients were evacuated after a fire broke out in a plant room on the ground floor about 6.45pm. A medical operation which was in progress during the evacuation was allowed to continue because smoke had not filled the theatre.
November 2, 2016
The NSW Supreme Court has heard the deaths of two far north coast nursing home residents may not have been considered suspicious if only one of them had occurred. Nurse Megan Haines is on trial for the murders of Marie Darragh, 82, and Isabella Spencer, 77, at St Andrews Village, Ballina, in May 2014. In his closing address to the jury today, Prosecutor Brendan Campbell described their deaths as “purposeful and deliberate”. Both women had made complaints about Haines, who is accused of injecting them with insulin. Haines had been told complaints had been made and was due to attend a formal meeting.
November 2, 2016
Cater Care Australia Pty Ltd is fighting a s.394 (Application for unfair dismissal remedy) instigated by an ex-staff member (Mondel).
November 2, 2016
Almost every hour a health worker is bitten, spat at, punched, abused or threatened while trying to care for patients in Victorian hospitals. Public hospitals and the ambulance service have made the number of these reports public for the first time, providing the clearest picture yet of the threat faced by doctors, nurses and other workers. There were 8627 reports of occupational violence in hospitals in the year to July, and of those 1166 cases resulted in staff injury or illness, an analysis of health services’ annual reports reveals.
November 2, 2016
Thousands of unpaid carers on the Gold Coast are struggling with social isolation and financial strain, coupled with emotional and physical exhaustion as they put the health of those they care for before their own. This is the warning of Carers Australia, which says one in eight people are carers, bringing the number of Gold Coast carers to about 62,500, according to the Care for Carers report, commissioned by Amcal in partnership with Carers Australia.
November 2, 2016
Crown Prosecutor Brendan Campbell has outright accused former nurse Megan Haines of administering fatal insulin overdoses to two aged care centre residents in Ballina. The double-murder trial’s evidence has come to an end after more than a fortnight at Sydney Supreme Court, with jurors told to expect the prosecution and defence’s final remarks today.
