A demented patient dies after an ambulance crew drops her off at the wrong house:

Mrs Purnell, who suffered from dementia and chronic lymphatic leukaemia would attend a day unit at Barry Hospital in South Wales, operated for elderly and mentally infirm clients.

She would be collected at the end of the day by an ambulance crew.

But instead of being taken to her home in Penarth on August 20th 2003, she was dropped off at the empty house of another patient in nearby Dinas Powys, after a key was found under the doormat.

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