Photographs of charred and smoke-blackened corridors in a Lanarkshire nursing home where 14 residents died have been shown to an inquiry.

The images from Rosepark Nursing Home in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, focused mainly on an area which contained 11 bedrooms.

They showed wallpaper discoloured by smoke and peeling from the walls, and carpets littered with debris. One photo showed a wheelchair propped against a wall, while others pictured charred furniture in the corridors.

As well as the 14 deaths, four residents were injured when the blaze broke out in a cupboard at the home on January 31, 2004. The photos, from an area of the building referred to as Corridor 4, were taken hours after the blaze by David Woodward, a senior scenes examiner with the Scottish Police Services Authority.

Some of the images focused on a cupboard referred to as Cupboard A2 and showed blackened shelves piled with fire-damaged articles, while the cupboard door was also badly damaged. The inquiry into the tragedy is taking place at the Gospel Literature Outreach Centre in Motherwell.

Care home owners Thomas, Anne and Alan Balmer are represented, along with Strathclyde Fire Brigade, Lanarkshire Health Board and the Care Commission. An attempt to prosecute the Balmers over alleged safety breaches collapsed in 2007 after a judge dismissed the charges.

A fresh indictment was served last year but those charges were also dropped. On Tuesday, the inquiry also heard from Patrick McGuire, whose 90-year-old aunt Julia McRoberts died following the fire.

She lived in Room 9, one of the rooms in Corridor 4. She had recently been transferred into that room from another smaller room because of a problem with her leg.

Mr McGuire told the inquiry that his aunt's preference would have been to sleep with the door open at night. Crown Counsel James Wolffe QC asked why his aunt had moved into the home.

He replied: "My aunt and I went to see Rosepark and she decided she liked it. She thought it was homely."

The inquiry continues.