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Disability carer fined $8,000 after leaving client in hot car due to ‘gastro attack’, court hears
A Canberra carer who left a man with severe disabilities in a hot car for an hour has been fined $8,000, with the ACT Magistrates Court hearing his client is lucky to have been rescued.
Key points:
- Radwick Deeranyika says he left his client in the car for over an hour due to a ‘gastro attack’
- The man was found slumped over in a car had to be rescued
- The prosecution called Deeranyika’s actions a dereliction of duty
Radwick Deeranyika, 48, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a health and safety duty, after the man was rescued by a passing tradesman who called the police.
The court heard Deeranyika had taken the man on an outing before stopping at his own home on the way back.
Deeranyika’s lawyer Paul Edmonds told the court he had stopped to…
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