Moment cruel carer throws dementia-stricken pensioner, 88, around ‘like a rag doll’ and threatens to ‘flog him” days before he died

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1. >Shocking CCTV footage has shown a carer ‘violently degrading’ a frail elderly man with dementia – as she hurled him around ‘like a rag doll’ just days before he died.
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   >Cruel 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, a court heard.
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   >Footage captured during the 45-minute visit shows the ordeal from which the great-grandfather never recovered, according to his family.
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   >Olagunju, who at the time was employed by Unique Personnel UK, stripped Mr Attard, threatened to beat him up and even dragged him across his living room floor.
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   >She is also said to have ignored the elderly man as he repeatedly told her she was ‘hurting’ him.
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   >At one point, Olagunju tells him: ‘Maybe I will beat you up. I will flog you. I will take you to the GP to get injections. I will call the police on you.’

   She got a six weeks suspended prison sentence.

   I wonder if cases like this are the tip of the iceberg. How many more people are being abused and there aren’t cameras there to see it.

2. shocking sentence. this is what happens when you hire people who don’t care into the care industry.

3. Elderly abuse should be treated like child abuse. Disgusting sentence and shocking that their are no checks or training for the people who look after the frail and sick.

4. >John was Olagunju’s first assignment as a care worker in the UK.

   They’re just putting anyone thy can find in these jobs, it should be criminal. It doesn’t mention her home country that I can see, I bet thy don’t treat their old people like that there either.

5. Not only should she be in prison but we should also go after employers if these things happen repeatedly.

6. How the fuck is that not a manslaughter conviction?

7. Absolute scum. Joke of a sentence too, should be at least a couple of years in prison.

8. She’s basically killed the old lad and got away with 6 weeks suspended. I wouldn’t be surprised if her 50 hours community service is down at the local care home.

   My dad had brilliant care from young lads who came in on a work visa. If she did the same, she needs to go when her 50 hours is up because she’s undoing the good work of many carers from overseas.

   The company she worked for need watching like a hawk too.

9. This is more common than you think. It is especially more difficult to monitor when the elderly, frail, vulnerable or those with deteriorating mental state  live alone. If people place their parents with care services visiting home please install home monitoring devices inside every room and outside. Also it may seem simple but try and visit or at the very least call your relative who has carers, ask them how they feel, what their carer has done for them, if they turn up on time etc.

10. The endless importation of people into the UK to look after our elderly when they have zero connection to the community or the people they’re looking after and we get this.

    Imagine we actually paid a good wage to people with ties to the community the elderly person grew up in instead of this nightmare.

11. Just days before he died.  Are we sure she didn’t kill him?

12. Wtf why isnt she in jail for 20 years and then deported?

13. Murder charge, deportation?

    I presume she’s one of the boriswave?

14. > During sentencing, Judge Charlotte Welsh told her: […] ‘I accept that there was **no malicious intent** to your actions and you show genuine remorse.’

    Beggars belief.

15. Judge Charlotte Welsh told her: ‘”Frankly it beggars belief that someone would be allocated an elderly man with dementia as their first client.” This was a horrible incident. However, stuff like this is inevitable when “care” is sub-contracted to organisations that are only interested in money – you end up with untrained or poorly-trained staff on minmum wage being allocated insufficient time for each client and being penalised if they don’t stick to unrealisticly tight schedules…oh yes, and they aren’t paid for time spent travelling between clients. The company that employed her, “Unique Personnel”, had a turnover of £13,126,242 in 2024, about £1.2 million more than in 2023 – but somehow they contrived to only declare £26,287 in profit! (Which means they can afford to pay a lot for “clever” accountants but pay very little to the people who work for them).

16. As an ex carer I left because I couldn’t cope with this kind of thing. It’s not uncommon and it’s almost never dealt with because CCTV “breaches privacy” so there’s rarely evidence and they believe the carer over a patient. I was seeing abuse every day, usually not this explicit but I was also aware of 3 incidents like this.

    the problem is good carers can’t cope and leave so bad carers are left in the industry. I only knew maybe 2 other good carers in my short career.

    ABUSE OF THE ELDERLY IS OCCURING EVERY DAY.

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