FORMER nursing home owner Moiya Tooley was struck off this week after being found guilty of professional misconduct.
Miss Tooley, a registered nurse, was matron and in charge of Belmont Nursing Home in Congleton, which she sold in 1993.
Following the sale care assistants at the home came forward to give details of the charges which Miss Tooley faced at a professional conduct committee.
The committee, part of the UK Central Council for Nursing,
Midwifery and Health Visiting, heard Miss Tooley ill-treated a 75-year-old female patient by tying her to a chair, pouring cold water over her head and forcing medication down her throat.
Another patient was grabbed by the hair and frogmarched to her bedroom by Miss Tooley, who fitted an 85-year-old woman with a catheter because she had been wetting her bed.
An inspector visited the home after an anonymous telephone call, and found a resident asleep in a chair while Miss Tooley's next door neighbour slept in the resident's bed.
Miss Tooley was found removing a chain from across a resident's door.
A 76-year-old man who died at the home weighing three and a half stones had extensive and severe pressure sores, which a pathologist said were made worse by the man being "seriously malnourished.''
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