Jurors will today resume deliberations into allegations of neglect at a Halifax nursing home.

They began to debate the case yesterday afternoon but were sent home for the night without reaching a verdict.

The former owner and manager of the Elm View nursing home have been accused of accepting a system of poor pressure sore care which resulted from staff and equipment shortages.

Police and health officials went into Philip Bentley's Huddersfield Road premises back in October 2011.

During his trial at Bradford Crown Court the jury heard allegations that at-risk residents were not regularly turned or taken to the toilet and the home did not have enough equipment such as pressure-relieving mattresses.

Bentley, 65, of Woodthorpe Drive, Sandal, Wakefield, has denied charges relating to the alleged neglect of three elderly women who developed pressure sores at the home in 2011.

The home’s former manager 49-year-old Faheza Simpson, of Huddersfield Road, Holmfirth, has also denied those three neglect charges and a further neglect allegation relating to a man who suffered pressure sores while staying at the home for a week.

Judge Jonathan Rose completed his summing up of the evidence in the case just before the lunchtime break yesterday.

Fazeha Simpson and Phillip Bentley
Fazeha Simpson and Phillip Bentley Picture: Ross Parry