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Death care home couple released

Leigh and Rachel Baker
Mr and Mrs Baker were arrested on Monday

Detectives investigating the suspected murders of five residents at a care home have released on bail the married couple who ran it, to return at Easter.

Leigh and Rachel Baker who managed the Parkfields Residential Home, Butleigh, Somerset, were arrested on Monday.

Mrs Baker, a nurse, was released on Wednesday and her husband, a chef, was freed on Thursday.

Both had been questioned on suspicion of murdering four women and one man at the home and drug possession.

Parkfields was closed by inspectors in March this year.

The couple were first arrested following the death of resident Lucy Cox, 97, on New Year's Day.

Subsequently police exhumed the bodies of Nellie "Mary" Pickford, 89, Marion Alder, 79, and 81-year-old Fred Green.

The identity of the fifth suspected victim has not been revealed.



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