THE owners of the Old Rectory Care Home, where a fire led to the death of two residents in February, are to be prosecuted for alleged breaches of regulations.
Mother-of-eight Nellie Walsh, aged 84, and retired schoolteacher Jack Thomas, aged 88, both died after the blaze at the home at Gumfreston, near Tenby.
An inquest last month recorded verdicts of accidental death, with smoke inhalation attributed as the root cause.
The Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales has now decided to prosecute the Old Rectory's owners, Keith and Rosemary Whittemore, for five alleged breaches of the Care Homes (Wales) Regulations 2002.
Three of the alleged offences are related to fire precautions, and the other two to staffing.
A spokesman for the Care Standards Inspectorate for Wales (CSIW) said: "The Old Rectory case is a criminal prosecution which will be heard in Haverfordwest at a date yet to be confirmed. The summonses have been served."
The Pembrokeshire coroner, Michael Howells, heard at the inquest that experts believed the fire was caused by an electrical fault in a distribution box in the first-floor airing cupboard.
The CSIW's investigation was conducted with Dyfed-Powys Police, the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service and Pembrokeshire County Council public protection department.
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