A care home and a council have been found guilty of maladministration and failing to protect a man in a wheel chair.
The home, which is in Leicester, spent large amounts of a severely disabled man’s money on clothes for women and children, make up, perfume, zumba classes and chiropody - all of this despite the fact he was in a wheelchair and had no wife or children.
The appalling scandal was only uncovered by the insistence of disabled Ian Reeves' sister Sharon McConnell that the home account for his missing money. Mr Reeves was a resident at Marston Court Care Home in Marston Road from 2007 until he died in February 2021. Sharon became his next of kin after their mother died in 2018 and developed serious concerns about the care he was receiving and how his money was being spent.
