Four Nigerian healthcare workers in the UK have been jailed after they were caught on camera physically and emotionally abusing an elderly patient, BBC reported on Thursday.
Ame Tunkara and Morountaro Adefila were found guilty of ill-treatment and wilful neglect and sentenced on December 8 to four months in prison, Danny Ohen and Bridget Aideyan were also found guilty of the same offences and sentenced to six months and four months, respectively, on November 14.
According to police the workers were caught on secret camera manhandling the 89-year-old woman who had vascular dementia and could not speak.
According to reports, the 89 years old’s family had secretly installed a camera and recorded footage over four days after noticing bruising on her arm.
It showed the woman being handled roughly, hit with a pillow, and treated with a lack of dignity and respect.
The woman meanwhile sadly passed away in October with a police official saying “she should not have spent any of her remaining years suffering such ill-treatment.”