A family installed a secret camera in a great-gran’s care home after a “gut instinct” made them believe she was being harmed.Now two care workers have been convicted after the device – hidden in a digital clock – captured them mistreating frail Jean Lochrane, 88.
Bisola Akindein, 34, and Diana Otobohu, 39, moved a nurse call alarm away from her and stopped her from being able to call for help at Eastbank Care Home in Shettleston, Glasgow.Otobohu climbed on top of Jean’s bed and pulled the alarm box from the wall.
The pair also used “inappropriate handling techniques” on her as her arms were pulled.Both pled guilty to a single charge of neglect and were each given 216 hours of community service.
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 bought a camera hidden in a digital clock, which they placed in Jean’s room.
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