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The daughter of an 84-year-old care home resident has claimed that he was “utterly humiliated” and mistreated by staff.

Rhona McKinlay said that her father William, a deafblind dementia suffer, was left to sit for hours in a chair that was saturated in urine with a chalk circle drawn around it.

Mrs McKinlay has accused the owner of the Latimer Grange home, Anthony Lampitt, of deliberately stripping her father of his dignity by forcing him to remain seated in the chair, something that one former care worker at the home has confirmed.

The humiliation was not the sole issue, and Mrs McKinlay has described the other ways in which her father suffered at the hands of the care home. On one occasion, Rhona found a large, unexplained bruise on her father’s stomach, whilst on another occasion her father was covered in flea bites. William also lost a great deal of weight, with his daughter saying: “They couldn’t be bothered feeding him. He couldn’t see the food put in front of him and doesn’t have the mental capacity to eat properly himself. It was terrible.”

Anthony Lampitt has not commented, but a spokesperson for the home said they were taking the allegations “very seriously.”

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