A shocking video shows the attack
HARROWING footage has been released showing a 95-year-old blind woman abused by two care workers.
Piotre Ciecielowski, 26, and Pedro Dias, 21, verbally abused their victim, who also has dementia, as they got her ready for bed.
Last week the Express revealed both men avoided jail after admitting ill-treatment while working as a carer at Prestbury House Care Home in Macclesfield.
Now footage of the cruel abuse, captured on secret cameras on March 31, has been released by the woman’s daughter, Lynne Nuttall, who branded the men ‘evil and a disgrace’.
In the video the distressed victim, Marjorie, is heard repeatedly crying and pleading for help.
Dias is heard threatening to ‘break every bone’ in the woman’s body before slapping her across the face causing her to yelp in pain.
Ciecielowski, a Polish national, failed to stop Dias or report his behaviour.
Mrs Nuttall said: “Putting my mum Marjorie in a care home was the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to look after her on my own, but caring for someone with dementia is a 24/7 job and sadly I received no help from any external source.
“These two men felt that it was the home’s fault for not ‘training’ them correctly.
“How much training do you need to know that hitting and verbally abusing a defenceless 95-year-old, blind, person is just totally unacceptable? They are evil and a disgrace.
“I fear that incidents like this are now all too common. I have decided to release this footage in the hope that we can now have a debate for an ‘opt-out’ surveillance system within all care homes and institutions.
“I have captured just one incident on camera. I fear that the full extent of physical and psychological abuse and harm done to my mother may never be known.
“Only because of my intervention were these men caught on camera and stopped. Surveillance cam- eras are the only way forward in any institution that houses vulnerable people. It is the only way to protect our loved ones.”
Mike Stephenson, from Mersey and Cheshire Crown Prosecution Service, said: “The victim’s daughter was terribly upset to discover that her mother was being treated in this way at a place where she thought she was safe.
“The CPS would like to thank her for her determination to find out the truth and to help us with this prosecution.”