Care boss on murder charge

A REGISTERED nurse has been charged with murdering three elderly residents of the care home she ran with her husband.

Rachel Baker, 44, is accused over the deaths of Marion Alder, 79, Lucy Cox, 97, and Francis Hay, also a pensioner, at the home near Glastonbury in Somerset between 2006 and 2007. She is also charged with 11 counts of possession of a controlled drug.

Baker and her husband Leigh, 50, a chef, are both charged with carrying out acts tending and intending to pervert the course of justice. They were due to appear at South Somerset magistrates' court in Yeovil today.

The couple, who managed the Parkfields care home in Butleigh for nine years, live in Glastonbury with their five-year-old daughter.