Private care provider Bupa has won an appeal against a £3m fine over the death of pensioner at a nursing home.
Kenneth Ibbetson, 86, died after contracting Legionnaire’s disease at Hutton Village care home in Brentwood, Essex, in June 2015.
Bupa Care Homes (BNH) Ltd was fined last year at Ipswich Crown Court after it admitted health and safety breaches.
The fine was cut to £1.5m after judges ruled BNH’s parent company profits were wrongly taken into account.