[gatagato]

What a painful way to go, some victims died during the fire and others after it as a result of their injuries What a crazy bastard.

He was the aged-care nurse entrusted to treat the elderly and infirm, but instead Roger Dean started a fatal blaze and murdered 11 helpless residents.

Dean, 37, on Monday pleaded guilty to 11 counts of murder following the fire that he stood by and watched as it engulfed the elderly residents of the Quakers Hill Nursing Home on November 18, 2011.

The four-week trial of 37-year-old Roger Dean was due to start in the New South Wales Supreme Court today.

He was charged days after the fire which ripped through the Quakers Hill nursing home in the early hours of November 18, 2011.

Dean previously entered guilty pleas to two counts of larceny for stealing painkillers, and prosecutors previously rejected his guilty pleas to manslaughter charges.

Family and friends of some of the victims were in court today to see him change his plea to guilty to the murder charges.

Dean has also pleaded guilty to eight counts of recklessly inflicting grievous bodily harm.
Relatives of the victims cried in the public gallery as the pleas were entered.

Outside court Elly Valkay, whose mother Neeltje Valkay was killed, said the guilty pleas were the best outcome.

"It wasn't happiness of course, I still miss my mother very much and the rest of our family miss her greatly, especially her grandchildren," she said.

"It was, I think, joy in my heart to see that my mother would say 'yes justice is going to be done and we're going to see it'."

Ms Valkay says she had been very close to her mother.

"I saw her six days a week," she said.

"I still do the wrong left hand turn to go home and go past the nursing home.

"There has been upheaval in our family because we miss her so much. There has been nights of no sleep...I still have nightmares."

Dean will be sentenced by Justice Megan Latham at a later date.

There were more than 80 residents in the home when the fire started in the early hours of the morning.

Some victims died during the fire and others after it as a result of their injuries.

Emergency crews were at the scene quickly and, although the home had fire extinguishers and fire doors, it did not have sprinklers in place.

It is now compulsory for nursing homes in New South Wales to have sprinklers.

Gary Barnier, Managing Director of the Domain Principal Group which owns the Quakers Hill home, says much has been been learnt from the tragedy.

"Fire sprinklers are now mandatory in New South Wales and we're just finalising the completion of those right round the country," he said.

"We'll continue to learn and to try to make sure something like this never ever happens again."

Read more:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05...ing-home-fire/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-2...tients/4715024
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/roger-dean...#ixzz2UT6o3tzj
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...657311?page=11

[kellyhound]

crazy bastard.
btw, nurses and docs make ideal serial killers as they have access to certain meds and have lots of opportunities to kill a patient without anyone finding out.

[ldelgadillo]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

crazy bastard.
btw, nurses and docs make ideal serial killers as they have access to certain meds and have lots of opportunities to kill a patient without anyone finding out.

yes, remember the nurse in texas that was murdering babies and toddlers by giving them injections that caused them to stop breathing? that was horrible.

[Stray_Bullet]

The sad thing is he will live in realtive comfort in jail. Protected from other inmates, three square meals a day, access to education, all on the taxpayer's tit. The justice system in Australia is fucked

[gatagato]

Originally Posted by Stray_Bullet ↗

The sad thing is he will live in realtive comfort in jail. Protected from other inmates, three square meals a day, access to education, all on the taxpayer's tit. The justice system in Australia is fucked

It's more or less what i always say about ther justice system in my country whenever shit like this happen.
It's very hard to digest, especially for the relatives of the victims

[Stray_Bullet]

The thing that really blew my mind was reading a copy of a Victorian prison's menu and seeing jailbirds could have pancakes for breakfast. Think I was speechless for about 5 minutes after

[Pyramid_Head]

This kind of shit is why my parents will never be sent to a nursing home.

[GregK]

I took care of my father on hospice( with the help of a lovely nurse) till the end. Fuck that end of life care by a stranger in a strange place shit. Why did he kill them though? Just cause?

[ices]

Red hot poker into his mouth and ass. Then feed him slowly into a furnace. Yeah lets see how you like being burned alive you fuck!

[Tiffany32]

Male especially gay nurses have always bothered me for some reason , I guess this will just reinforce those beliefs !