Testimony: Elderly are being tortured & murdered in care homes

Video Transcript:

Hello, I think Leah has put out about this live so I'm quickly gonna go on and invite people to this video which is really important to me. I just want to start by letting you know that I've absolutely solved my heart out at this story. It's not very pleasant so I'm gonna give you fair warning. It's not really something that we didn't necessarily know about. Certainly I know about it and I've been reporting on it but just a couple of the things in there are really really upset me and I just want to talk to you about it. Let you know I want the message to get out and I don't want this to go unnoticed or for people to be able to get away with this to be honest with you at all. So I've just invited a few people and I can see that there's a few one already so thank you. So how are you all today? I'm just waiting for people to come on before I talk about it and tell you what's been going on and I'm sorry if I get upset. I had to call Leah after what happened and I was absolutely even flood the tears and I just needed somebody to talk to really. I don't think anybody will realise that the people that have seen this and have worked with it are completely traumatized by what they're seeing and will be for a long time. Sorry I've got read what I've got as well. I'm not looking for sympathy over it at all but it's real. So I mean you know that I've been talking for a long time about what has happened to the elderly people in care and I started first making comments about this on Facebook in June and I didn't really think that people were listening so I made a live video on Thursday for June. I think it was all the first of July and I put it out and it's had a hundred thousand views so I know that people appreciate the message and want to hear about this and it means something to them and I've also acquired 3000 followers and I'm just you know I'm a no per day and I'm just somebody that wants to tell people what is happening. So I've been lucky enough since then to have interviews and be able to speak about what is happening to raise issues and to raise awareness sorry on this issue and I hope the message is reaching out and getting out to some people and they know that they're not alone for a start. Whistleblowers have come forward and I'm collecting their stories and I'm collecting the stories of the family so that they the families that this has happened to so that when there is a reckoning and there will be that I have got that information to be able to pass on to people. So today what has happened is I had a whistleblower contact me who I've spoken to or I've verified this person they are real person they're not a nut heart or some conspiracy theorist. The people get like to say that we're conspiracy theorists this person is not they're a real person. They are working in a home they've given me their full name they've given me the name of the home. I'm not yet going to release that to you guys publicly because it's a process that we're going through but that person has agreed that I can read out what they sent me and I want you all to know that this is the truth of what is happening so I'm just going to read a email really and then you can tell me what you worry what you think so she said hi Claire thank you for the reply I'm seeing my manager again tomorrow and I'm telling her that this will be my last complaint before going to the CEC which is the Care Quality Commission but again I'm not sure how responsive it they will be they don't seem to care I'm worried that it's my word against all the GPs the district just strict nurses and the other carers what I have to say is that they have put all our residents on do not resuscitate orders and all of these residents with variable or lack of capacity are on anticipatory care pathways which means that they are not allowed to go to hospital for any treatment for anything and they aren't to receive any antibiotics for anything whatsoever whatever illness they've got since this pandemic in inverted commas started we haven't had a single GP the patients at home whenever anyone gets ill and this is ill not related to COVID because we haven't got it in my care home they automatically put them on end of life this is now what really gets me a nail by mouth and they discontinue all their medication because they say they're at risk of aspiration which is ridiculous sorry which is ridiculous because if they eat drink or have medication there is a small chance that they could aspirate but if they're nail by mouth then they will die from dehydration and salvation myself and another career or night have had to resort to buying jars of pure aid baby food and feeding the residents and given them drinks after making them aware of the risk of aspiration and getting their consent just so that they can have food and drink sorry along with this the GPs are remotely prescribed in end of life medication which is more thin and modazzle am injections and these are being misused they all our clients have had their usual medication taken away which is regular pain relief such as paracetamol and cocoa and codeine sorry and all their anxiety antidepressant and anti-psychotic medication which a lot of our clients are on the district nurses then come into the home to give end of life drugs because with the withdrawal of usual medication the resident is showing signs of pain and anxiety which of course they would the more thin should only be used for extreme pain when nothing else helps and this knocks the individuals out and especially when they're not eating and drinking and losing weight this means it's even harder to get any fluids in them the modazzle am is given at end of life for sedation and terminal restlessness and agitation however this press is the individuals breathing and quick as long they're death no other alternatives of pain relief are given there's no pain patches no liquid paracetamol they just put them straight onto the hard stuff which once started he's only a matter of days before that resident passes away however this has all been okayed by the doctors and the nurses and as the need for analgesia is subjective I don't know how much evidence I can find or even if I will be believed but I have collected evidence of fluid charts I've worked in this home for over two years and I have never seen anything like this when it comes to end of life and just writing people off I believe it's a human right to have right to life and they are committing euphonazia so much for them protecting the vulnerable so I've had to phone up this person and speak to them and say to them a that I think that they're really brave for trusting me to tell me the story I absolutely wanted to go to the place straight away I was going to get in my car and drive to where the home is and go and and get the place but I don't even trust that they will do anything I feel so powerless to get anybody to look at this and I've had to tell this person don't go to the CQC if you do they will bury it they will bury it they will cover up the evidence and you will lose your job and there will be nobody going in and feeding these people with the pure rate baby food that you are feeding them to keep them alive and just in case anybody thinks that this is normal and what you do to people on an end of life pathway it is not the Liverpool pathway was disbanded and I think it was in 2014 because it was not even been before then and yes you have a right to refuse life sustaining treatment but that has to come from you and if you can't consent to that because you haven't got capacity then that has to be made at a best interest meeting and that decision has to be documented and it has to be taken in appropriate ways which when I wasn't being done and even then you are not allowed to take away somebody's hydration and somebody's pain medication you are not allowed to that is illegal that is wrong and these doctors and these nurses and these care home staff that are just doing it and aren't speaking out on nothing more than complicit to killing people to murdering people and this is really what is going on this is really what is happening this is why people are dying and the numbers are high they none of them have got COVID none of them the the person I spoke to said to me they have been she can put her hand on her heart and say that two of those people in her home have been murdered and there's a third that she thinks has but they there's other issues that they could question and she gave me an example and said to me that one of the people in the home got a chest infection during lockdown and they basically got taken to hospital and they actually got treated, completely and the chest infection cleared up so when they went to hospital they had a COVID test and it was negative and then they were discharged because the chest infection cleared up and they had another test and it was negative and when they got the discharge notes back at the home it said on it that the person had coronavirus by exposure despite the two negative tests and the all-usual medication should be removed and that this person should be put on end of life this person never had a chance they didn't have capacity for a start I would like to see the best interest decision that was made I would like to see the deprivation of liberty orders that these homes have got in place for people but they're locking up on that and that haven't got capacity because you just you can't do that you have to get a doll's order and the court has to give that and that the court you can't get anything from the court I know that because I know what's going on so I know that they're not doing this and it's just murder it's just killing people and it's it's happening if this is happening in this one small home and you know what I've been telling you has been happening in my homes but what has really finished me off today is having to feed these people with baby food there's one other person at that home that this person works with that is trying to that is trying to speak out and yes the LCP was rebranded but as I've said you're not allowed to take away somebody's hydration and pain medication you can't do that that's illegal and anybody anybody that has got a relative in a care home at this time please please I implore you if you are able to go and take your relative out of it go and take your relative out of it I know that many of the staff are perhaps doing the best that they can I'm sure that they are but you cannot go along with this this person that's come out today it just does not know where to turn to get the people the help that they need and she is scared about losing her job because if she goes there is nobody to feed these people and they are just going to starve to death I want the families of these people I said do the families know we don't even know what's been put in the death certificates because she said that she she hasn't seen the death certificate so we can't be sure what's on there be interesting to see if coronavirus is on there wouldn't it when they haven't got it in the home and we know what's happened but I'm sure the families don't think anything of it because guess what there's nobody going in I mean there are some visits allowed at this home she said for when people are dying and things but they don't know what's happening they're not being told they're not being told so it's really important that people like me I don't care I don't care anymore about my job I don't really don't want my shame to be in my profession because more of us aren't speaking up and I'm so sorry to everybody that we're not I so am and I just I don't care anymore I don't care if I get struck off I don't when you've got nothing to fear you've got nothing to lose and this is a story that needs to be told and and something needs to be done about this I've put this particular person in touch with Eileen Chubb of Compassion in Care and I'm hoping that Eileen will be able to work with this person to give them whistleblower status to protect that person's job because they are a decent human being that is trying to save people and stop this and I would just ask you please I'm sorry about the crying I know that it's all for and I shouldn't be upset when I come on camera and please share this video please please make everybody aware of what is happening I am just begging you to get this out there the more people that find out about it the more people maybe that stand up the more people that they're saying no enough is enough and that justice can be bought for those people and justice can be served on those people that are doing this and I am saying to all of you doctors and nurses all of you any of you that is complicit in this I am coming for you I am we are and that's it that's all I've got to say guys tonight I just really I'm so upset and I wanted I wanted to tell you all and I'm sorry for being upset and please share this video please make sure everybody knows and please if you've got your own relatives in Care and you can please go and take them out of it please go and take them out of wherever they are and I'll speak to you all soon thank you