Jane Barnard is on trial at Gloucester Crown Court (Image: PAUL NICHOLLS TRINITY MIRROR)

A care home worker has admitted neglect of a resident who died after she gave him someone else's medication.

Jane Barnard , 66, denies killing Derek Davies, 75, who lived at the care home where she was employed. Derek died on September 8, 2021.

At Gloucester Crown Court on Monday, she pleaded guilty to a second charge that she wilfully neglected Mr Davies between September 5 and September 9 that year by failing to disclose she had wrongfully administered morphine.

Barnard, of Longlevens , Gloucester, was employed as a care worker at Wheatridge Court in Abbeydale, Gloucester, where Mr Davies was a resident when he died.

The court heard that on the morning of September 6, Barnard erroneously

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