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| Panorama care home abuse probe: Women admit assault | Panorama care home abuse probe: Women admit assault |
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| Three women accused of assaulting and harassing elderly people at a care home have pleaded guilty to assault. | Three women accused of assaulting and harassing elderly people at a care home have pleaded guilty to assault. |
| The care workers were charged after an investigation by the BBC's Panorama programme into the Old Deanery care home near Braintree in Essex. | |
| Adeshola Adewura, 33, Lorna Clark, 45, and Anita Ray, 47, will be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court in February. | |
| The Panorama programme, broadcast in April 2014, showed an elderly woman with dementia being slapped and goaded. | The Panorama programme, broadcast in April 2014, showed an elderly woman with dementia being slapped and goaded. |
| Essex Police started the investigation into the abuse by Adewura, of Clockhouse Way, Clark, of Hammond Place, and Ray, of Victoria Street, after detectives saw the programme. | |
| A care worker, who was seen to slap a resident, had been sacked earlier on after an eyewitness made a statement to independent investigators. | |
| In April 2014 the Old Deanery's owners Anglia Retirement Homes said managers were "shocked and saddened by allegations made by the BBC's Panorama programme of inappropriate behaviour by some members of staff". |