Four Nigerian health workers have been jailed in Wolverhampton, U.K. after they were caught on film physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient.
According to the police, the
woman, 89, was at a Wolverhampton care home. She has vascular dementia and
cannot speak.
The BBC reported that the health workers were caught on film physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient.
The police officers also
disclosed that her family had secretly installed a camera and recorded the
abuse.
Ame Tunkara, Morounranti
Adefila, Danny Ohen, and Bridget Aideyan were all found guilty and sentenced at
Wolverhampton Crown Court.
The family had noticed bruising
on the woman's arm after she had been in the home for a year while she had also
become nervous and was scared to be touched, detectives added.
Eight care assistants were
charged and four were found not guilty after a trial.
Tunkara, 33, of Walsall, and
Adefila, 43, of Wolverhampton, were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful
neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison.
Ohen, 39, and Aideyan, 49, both
from Wolverhampton, were also found guilty of the same offences and sentenced
to six months and four months, respectively, on November 14.
Det Con Kathryn Sargent said:
"This elderly woman sadly died in October and should not have spent any of
her remaining years suffering such ill-treatment."
David Atherton, a journalist
and frequent contributor to the BBC, ITV, BBC Radio, TalkTV, and GBNews,
tweeted on Friday morning: “Four Nigerian healthcare workers have been found
guilty of abusing an 89-year-old woman with vascular dementia in Wolverhampton.
“Ame Tunkara, 33 &
Morounranti Adefila, 43 jailed for 4 months. Last Sept Danny Ohen, 39 & Bridget
Aideyan, 49, were jailed for 6 months & 4 months.
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