A care home manager has been ordered to pay £4,090 after two people who used wheelchairs drowned when their boat capsized during a day out, according to The Independent. The two residents were said to have been strapped into electric wheelchairs with no way of being released from them.
Janice Sowden, 60, had previously pleaded guilty to failing to provide safe care and treatment that resulted in avoidable harm to Alexander Wood, Alison Tilsley and Kate Dart. Father-of-four Mr Wood, 43, and Ms Tilsley, 63, reportedly died when the wheelyboat they were traveling in capsized at Roadford Lake Activity Centre, with their heavy wheelchairs said to have dragged them under the water.
