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15.10.2008

Trust Fined £20,000 Over Scalding Death

A healthcare trust has been ordered to pay £20,000 following the death of a man who was scalded in a bath.

George Inwood, 68, who had Parkinson's disease, died of a suspected heart attack and scalding at The Lodge Hostel in Stechford, Birmingham, in 2004.

Servol Community Trust, which manages the centre where he died, pleaded guilty to health and safety offences.

An earlier inquest heard a faulty thermostat meant water was twice the recommended temperature.

In June, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, which owned the centre, was fined £25,000 over health and safety issues.

At Birmingham Crown Court, Servol Community Trust was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £10,000 costs.

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