Hospital security staff battered a vulnerable patient leaving him covered in bruises in a ‘shocking display of abuse of power’.
The suicidal victim had been rushed to North Manchester General Hospital in an ambulance after taking an overdose. After being seen in a cubicle within the hospital by medical staff, he was left alone with four security guards who had been called in because he had become ‘difficult to manage’, Manchester Crown Court heard.
But over an hour period, three male security staff launched an appalling assault on him, hitting him over the head 46 times, slapping him and placing him in painful restraint positions.
Supervisor Abdul Saleem, 36, from Stretford, Trafford, and Darling Owa, 55, from Chadderton, Oldham, were hauled before a judge after their own body-worn cameras filmed the entire attack.