A CARER who cleaned her blood-smeared flat as an 84-year-old veteran lay bleeding to death on the hallway floor has been jailed for four and half years. 

Izabela Dauti, aged 40 and of Bell Road, Andover, cried in the dock today (Thursday) as she was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter of her friend Malcolm Cox after a ten-day trial at Winchester Crown Court.

She was found guilty by a majority verdict and then sentenced immediately after.

Mr Cox, a retired Army sergeant major, fell and hit his head on a ceramic plant pot on November 14, 2016, and suffered a six-centimetre wound.

He began to bleed profusely but mother-of-one Dauti chose to call her lover Gwyn Price and a friend instead of phoning 999.

Mr Cox is believed to have crawled around Dauti’s flat as his organs began to fail and yet Dauti refused to call emergency services, instead she used a mop and bucket in attempts to rid her flat from his blood.

Prosecutors say that it is likely that Mr Cox was left laying in his “own blood and own faeces” for more than 12 hours.

And as Mr Cox suffered, Dauti’s lover Mr Price visited her home after she phoned him in what he described as a “panicked state”.

Giving evidence Mr Price said Dauti urged him to remove Mr Cox from the flat shouting “dirty old man get him out” but he refused.

But Mr Price refused and instead went to Dauti's mother's home to plead with her to get her daughter to call the doctors but after returning to his lover's flat he decided to go home and sleep.

The court was told Dauti then went to the Sheep Fayre stores at about 7.45am and bought bread rolls and a bottle of wine before returning home.

However, Dauti did not call 999 until almost half an hour later at 8.11am and when paramedics arrived they found Mr Cox in a "pool of blood" and his clothes sodden.

Mr Cox suffered “significant” blood loss and was taken to Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital on November 15 but succumbed to his injuries the following day.

She was arrested on November 15 and in her six interviews gave a variety of accounts of what happened including stating that Mr Price had assaulted Mr Cox because he was jealous and in another she said that she had woken at around 6.45am and found the member of the keen bridge player laying on the floor.

The trial focused on whether Dauti had a duty of care to Mr Cox as the prosecution and defence argued over whether she was his carer.