The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been criticised for refusing to reconsider criminal proceedings in connection with abuse suffered by residents of care homes across South Wales.
Dr Margaret Flynn led an inquiry into the failure of Operation Jasmine and said last month that care home boss Dr Prana Das “should have and could have been prosecuted”.
The trial of Dr Prana Das, who ran the Brithdir Care Home in New Tredegar, collapsed in 2013 after he suffered a brain injury following an attack by burglars.
Dr Flynn told BBC Radio 5 Live the CPS’ response to her report had been “insensitive and blinkered”.
She said: “I think it’s both graceless and insensitive, given that families are grieving and are aggrieved. The outcome is that what we have are a host of unanswered questions.
“Given the very slow changing gears that kept matters of Operation Jasmine out of the public eye for over sever years, their (CPS) very rapid response is graceless.”
Lorraine Brannan, of the Justice for Jasmine campaign group, said relatives now wanted to meet the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, to find out why the CPS was not reconsidering the case.