A live-in carer is facing a jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to a violent attack on a bed-ridden 89-year-old in her own home. Pavla Dolanska pleaded guilty to a Section 20 charge that she unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on Doris Radford in her home in Horfield.
The mother and grandmother, who was bed-ridden, paralysed and suffered from dementia, had round the clock professional care at her home, with Dolanska, 36, employed as the live-in overnight carer. Mrs Radford, whose family were at court to hear the guilty plea, was taken to hospital after the attack, and never returned home - she died 17 days later, just short of her 90th birthday.
At a brief hearing at Bristol Magistrates' Court yesterday (Tuesday, October 25), Dolanska confirmed her age, her address as one in Manchester, and answered ‘guilty’ to the single charge that on April 18, 2021 she inflicted GBH on Mrs Radford at her home in Filton Avenue.
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