Britain's cruelest 'carers': Two hospital workers filmed slapped brain-damaged patient and called him a 'dirty scummy boy' while he groaned in pain at £3,000-a-week private Priory

• Worried family hid secret surveillance cameras around the man's room
  
• Rita Page and Lynette Crook were filmed in Bury, Greater Manchester
• Crook jabbed patient in torso and head with a pen whilst he was asleep
• Page slapped victim during struggle when she put pillow between legs
• Relatives launch petition for cameras in care homes for vulnerable people
• Page pleads guilty to two abuse charges and Crook pleads guilty to three 
  

By MARK DUELL

PUBLISHED: 08:50 GMT, 25 March 2014 | UPDATED: 14:40 GMT, 25 March 2014

Two carers have been filmed slapping, jabbing and humiliating a brain-damaged patient as he lay groaning in bed at a £3,000-a-week Priory hospital.

Rita Page, 68, and Lynette Crook, 33, were caught smacking the young victim’s legs and swearing at him as they changed his bedding in Bury, Greater Manchester.

On the secretly-filmed tape, Page can be heard saying: ‘You won’t beat us, b******. There’s this very fine line between abuse and neglect.’

And Crook is heard saying: ‘Better not think about being sick on me lad. I don’t do sick, so stop it scummy lad. Don’t you dare be sick on me boy, don’t you dare - you dirty, scummy boy.’

The footage was filmed between August 28 and September 19 in 2012 by the patient’s family who were worried about his treatment at the privately-run hospital.

Believing their concerns had not been addressed by senior staff, they hid surveillance cameras around the man’s room at The Priory Highbank Centre specialist hospital for neurological treatment.

After a court case yesterday, the victim's uncle said: ‘All institutions must be brought to justice and we wanted to make sure these two women were brought to account for what they did.

We were very concerned about the treatment our relative was getting and we made that many complaints that two family members got banned from the premises.

‘As a family we are more than happy with their [guilty] pleas and they will be shown up for what they are. We want a petition for cameras in care homes for vulnerable people like him. If you have nothing to be ashamed of then it won’t be an intrusion.’

Healthcare assistants Page from Bury and Crook, of Ramsbottom, near Bury, were suspended from their duties and were arrested after the footage was handed over to police.

The film emerged as Crook and Page were warned they faced jail after they pleaded guilty to charges of ill treatment of the patient on the first day of their trial at Bolton Crown Court.

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