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Scots carers caught on hidden camera neglecting dementia patient struck off

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Two care workers have been struck off after they were caught mistreating an elderly dementia patient on a hidden camera installed by her family.

Bisola Akindein, 34, and Diana Otobohu, 39, were convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court in April after both pleaded guilty to a single charge of neglect.The pair were caught after "gut instinct" made the family of 88-year-old great grandmother Jean Lochrane install a camera - hidden in a digital clock - in her bedroom at Eastbank Care Home in Shettleston, Glasgow.They were both struck off the register by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) on November 15.

Jean, who has vascular dementia, was only in the home six weeks when her son John, 68, and his wife Angela, 60, realised something was wrong.

Jean told them people had been taking her buzzer away and said: “They are being bad to me, they are shouting at me.”Angela said: “We had a terrible gut feeling.”The couple placed the camera in Jean’s room and watched in horror as the events unfolded, with Akindein and Otobohu pulling Jean’s bed into the middle of the floor so she was unable to reach her nurse call alarm.Then she looked on as her pleas to use the toilet were ignored.Otobohu climbed on top of Jean’s bed and pulled the alarm box from the wall.

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