A CCTV footage has shown the moment a Nigerian care giver violently manhandled a frail elderly man with dementia as she hurled him around just days before he died.
In a court hearing, the carer, Bilikesu Olagunju, 42, who had been in the job just six days, was caught on camera ‘manhandling’ John Attard, 88, at his home in Bexley, Kent.
According to his family, the footage captured during the 45-minute visit, on Christmas Eve 2022, on a camera set up by his son Chris. showed the ordeal from which the great-grandfather never recovered.
Olagunju, who at the time was reportedly employed by Unique Personnel UK, stripped Mr Attard, threatened to beat him up, and even dragged him across his living room floor.
She is also said to have ignored the elderly man as he repeatedly told her she was ‘hurting’ him.
At one point, Olagunju had threatened to flog him and call the police on him.
The following day, Mr Attard, a pensioner, was found unresponsive – with blood dripping down the side of his face and was rushed to hospital, where he remained unresponsive, and dled ten days after the incident.
Olagunju pleaded guilty to one count of ill-treating or willfully neglecting an individual while acting as a care worker.
She has now been given a six-week prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, while also being ordered to carry out 50 hours’ unpaid work, at Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London.
Speaking after the hearing, the victim’s son Chris Attard condemned her sentence as an ‘insult’.
Nigerian Caregiver Caught on CCTV manhandling an Aged Man, Sentenced in UK.
