An agency worker has faced a judge accused of the ill-treatment of a woman in her care.

Doris Obi, aged 32, will stand before a jury after she denied the allegation at Plymouth Crown Court.

Obi pleaded not guilty to ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a person lacking mental capacity in her care between August 29 and September 1 last year.

Plymouth Crown Court
Plymouth Crown Court

Plymouth Live cannot reveal the name of the woman nor the city care home where she was living at the time because of a court order.

Recorder Barbara Rowley set down a trial set to take three to four days, starting on September 3.

Obi, of Exeter Street, Plymouth, was released on unconditional bail.