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Maurice Fitzmaurice & Alan Erwin

Belfast care home sex assault "deeply shocking", Commissioner for Older People says

A watchdog says health chiefs have “questions” to answer after a man with hundreds of criminal convictions was jailed for a sexual assault on a care home resident.

The Commissioner for Older People Eddie Lynch raised concerns after 75-year-old Alexander Reynolds, himself a resident in the home, assaulted the woman.

Mr Lynch says he will be raising the “deeply shocking” incident with the Health Trust responsible.

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