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Winterbourne View: Care workers being sentenced | Winterbourne View: Care workers being sentenced |
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Care workers who admitted a total of 38 charges of neglect or abusing patients at a private hospital are being sentenced at Bristol Crown Court. | |
The 11 workers from Winterbourne View near Bristol were shown pinning down and hitting patients, in a BBC Panorama undercover report shown last year. | |
Ringleader Wayne Rogers, 32, who admitted nine counts of ill-treating patients, was jailed for two years. | |
Judge Neil Ford QC said there was a "culture of cruelty" at the care home. | |
A total of two nurses and nine support workers are being sentenced after pleading guilty. | |
Alison Dove, 23, of Kingswood, was jailed for 20 months as has Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway. Both pleaded guilty to seven charges of abuse. | |
Judge Ford said no attempt was made to provide a caring environment and if the abuse had not been uncovered by the BBC, it would have continued. | |
He told the sentencing hearing the home had been "run with a scandalous lack of regard to patients and staff". | |
"What happened was a gross breach of trust," he said. | "What happened was a gross breach of trust," he said. |
The full list of care workers is: | The full list of care workers is: |
Michael Ezenagu, 29, from Shepherds Bush, west London; Alison Dove, 23, of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe; Daniel Brake, 27, of Downend; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate; Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emerson Green; and Wayne Rogers, 31, of Kingswood. They all admit ill-treating patients in their care. | Michael Ezenagu, 29, from Shepherds Bush, west London; Alison Dove, 23, of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe; Daniel Brake, 27, of Downend; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate; Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emerson Green; and Wayne Rogers, 31, of Kingswood. They all admit ill-treating patients in their care. |
Sookalingum Appoo, 58, of Downend; and Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough; pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting patients in their care. | Sookalingum Appoo, 58, of Downend; and Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough; pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting patients in their care. |