{"id":520584,"date":"2026-03-05T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520584\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:45:18","slug":"carer-will-never-forget-night-pensioner-choked-to-death-on-used-gloves-in-nursing-home-inquest-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520584\/","title":{"rendered":"Carer \u2018will never forget\u2019 night pensioner choked to death on used gloves in nursing home, inquest told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Margaret Wilson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6649cf72-0bc6-4831-8cee-abd11909970e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Margaret Wilson<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A healthcare assistant who was on duty on the night an 83-year-old woman died after choking on used disposable gloves has told an inquest it was an \u201chorrific incident she will never forget\u201d, as she described the death as a \u201ctragic accident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Louise Wilson, who had worked night shifts at the Oakridge Care Home in Ballynahinch, Co Down, for around 18 months, at the time, gave evidence to the resumed inquest at Belfast\u2019s Laganside courts via video-link into the death of Margaret Wilson, who died in August 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margaret Wilson A healthcare assistant who was on duty on the night an 83-year-old woman died after choking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500,19371,195934],"class_list":["post-520584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news-in-90-seconds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}