Care home couple bail extended

Mr and Mrs Baker managed Parkfields Home in Butleigh

A married couple arrested on suspicion of murdering five elderly care home residents have had their bail period extended.

Rachel Baker and her husband Leigh were questioned in 2007 over the deaths of four women and a man at Parkfields Home in Butleigh, Somerset.

The couple, aged 45 and 48, managed the home for almost a decade.

On Tuesday, a spokesman for Avon and Somerset Police said the bail had been extended until September.

Remains exhumed

The pair, from Glastonbury, were interviewed initially after the death of 97-year-old Lucy Cox on New Year's Day, 2007.

Police then exhumed the remains of three other former residents in order to carry out toxicology tests.

In December, the Bakers were arrested on suspicion of murdering Mrs Cox, along with Nellie Pickford, 89, Marion Alder, 79, and Fred Green, 81.

A fifth "suspicious" death remains unidentified by police.

Residents at Parkfields have been rehoused.