[2] Castlebeck was owned by Lydian Capital Partners, an investment firm based in Geneva and backed by a consortium including three Irish billionaires: Denis Brosnan, Dermot Desmond and J.P.
[9] On 21 June 2011, 86 people and organisations wrote to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, about the revelations: "We are aware of the various actions currently being taken within and outside government – such as the DH review and CQC internal inquiry.
[citation needed] The Daily Telegraph said, "It is impossible to read the details of what went on at Winterbourne View, a care home for the severely disabled in Gloucestershire, without feeling repelled.
[16] However, it later emerged that managers had officially alerted the CQC to numerous allegations of staff abusing patients, dating back to February 2008, which were also reported to the police, but did not lead to any convictions.
[17] The CQC also inspected 132 similar institutions and a Serious Case Review was commissioned – some of the roughly ten local and national enquiries were carried out to examine what went wrong, including one by NHS Southwest which was one of the first to be published and list many of the others.
[24][25] The BBC programme Panorama produced an investigation documentary depicting the violations at Winterbourne View Hospital titled "Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed".