Despite a six-year police investigation, no-one has ever been charged with her attack.<\/p>\n
At the time of Mrs Kneale’s death, Mr Pover was a senior nurse working in the stroke unit and part of the team who looked after her. <\/p>\n
He told the inquest at Blackpool and Fylde Coroner’s Court that when she first arrived on 12 November she had been alert and able to communicate.<\/p>\n
Mrs Kneale was asked about a statement given to police in 2019 when he said he could not see when the injuries to Mrs Kneale could have been sustained. <\/p>\n
“I think this was just an expression of disbelief,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Pover was also asked about an exchange with a health care assistant who had been asked to clean Mrs Kneale’s body shortly after her death.<\/p>\n
He said she had told him there was a large amount of blood on the bed which was “too much for someone to deal with”, and had asked for assistance. <\/p>\n
Another health care assistant then went to help her, the court heard.<\/p>\n
Gareth Thompson, representing Mrs Kneale’s family, asked Mr Pover why he had not raised the matter with anyone else, saying: “The nurse brought concerns to you. Why didn’t you do your job and react to those concerns?” <\/p>\n
Mr Pover said he honestly did not know.<\/p>\n
He told the inquest that he thought he had underestimated the seriousness of the situation.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think I computed it as blood,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Pover also said the health care assistant had not appeared “overly upset” about the situation and so he did not appreciate the urgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a six-year police investigation, no-one has ever been charged with her attack. At the time of Mrs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-124018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}