Carer charged with neglect

Saturday 1st May 2010, 3:00PM BST.

The entrance to the Magistrate's Court

THE carer of a mentally ill patient who died has been charged with neglect.

Australian-born Julie-Ann Breen (45) denies the charge. She had been employed privately on a three-week contract to care for the elderly woman in her own home in St Ouen.

Ms Breen appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday and denied ill-treating or wilfully neglecting Ann Spring – who was believed to have been in her 80s – between 21 February and 17 March.

Miss Breen, the court heard, had spent six weeks in custody following her arrest but was released on bail earlier this month.

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