Dunmurry Manor Care Home staff "threatened with rape, shooting and death"

By Adam Evans

The owners of the Dunmurry Manor Care Home where serious failings were identified by the Older People's Commissioner says its current staff are being threatened and attacked.

In a statement, Runwood Homes has told Q Radio individuals are being "threatened with rape, shooting and death on social media".

It says other incidents have seen a care assistant attacked with a bottle, a nurse whose home windows were smashed.

Adding that, "the PSNI were called to an incident outside Dunmurry Manor today when staff felt intimidated by a number of people in cars who arrived at the care home just after noon."

We're also told staff and their children are being refused service or shunned in some shops.

Runwood says "they are happening despite the fact the current staff team, with just a few exceptions, didn’t even work at Dunmurry when the historic cases occurred and the home has passed all inspections undergone over the past 15 months."

It says the incidents have been reported to the PSNI.

Campaign group, Northern Ireland Patient Voice responded to this article with the tweet below:

We have seen no evidence of this on twitter & all the families we support are too distraught currently to abuse people like this. They have behaved impeccably.

If it does exist it is unacceptable and completely moronic and we would urge people to desisthttps://t.co/yF3tEbNCOc

— NI Patient Voice (@NIPatientVoice) June 27, 2018