It's 5 a.m. the 18th of November 2011.

A.m. the 18th of November 2011.

A fire breaks out at the Quakers Hill nursing home

40 kilometers west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

14 of the 81 residents of the home would die in the

fire or in the period soon after. Roger Kingsley Dean, a registered nurse employed at

the home, would ultimately plead guilty to and was

convicted in respect of 11 counts of murder by way of reckless indifference to human life. On this episode we'll find out what

went wrong and how this horrific event could have been avoided. I'm your host

Camboe, grab a beer and pull up a jet chair.

This is True Crime Island, another True Crime podcast. cast.

So, before we get into the events of the 18th of November,

so, before we get into the events of the 18th of November 2011, let's have a look at the background of Roger Dean and how he came to be employed at the Quakers Hill nursing home. Now a lot of this will be directly from the murder trial and the

coroner's report. He was born in 1976 in Vietnam and was brought to Australia as an infant by his mother, together with three siblings as refugees.

His father reportedly died whilst attempting to flee at a later time.

He recognised he was gay at an early age.

He was often bullied at school and his sexual orientation seemed to be the cause of the difficult relationship he had with his mother.

He had very little contact with his siblings throughout his life.

Even with these difficulties, he was able to graduate in 1996 from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Nursing degree.

He worked with St George Hospital and Community Health Services in the areas of mental health and drug and alcohol rehabilitation between 2002 and 2007. In April 2007 he had a dispute with his supervisor Tracy Sheehan

over notes he had made on a patient's file. Dean became upset over the matter saying she was condescending and unfair.

Later Miss Sheen found a car damaged in the work car park with paint splashed over it and screws in the tyres.

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