A senior carer who attacked a bed-bound 95-year-old dementia sufferer told another member of staff she was teaching her victim a lesson. Davina Bissett, 53, faces being struck off after she admitted carrying out an assault which left her vulnerable victim covered in bruises.
A less senior member of staff reported Bissett after she refused to stop attacking Margaret McAuly in Moncrieff Nursing and Residential Home in Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. Bissett told her colleague: "No, I've started so I'll finish. She needs to learn to behave." She then warned her victim: "Stop being a brat."
Perth Sheriff Court was told that Bissett was immediately suspended and subsequently sacked after 16 years working as a senior carer at the home. Bissett, Newburgh, Fife, admitted assaulting Ms McAuly on March 24 this year by seizing her wrists and pulling her arms across her body, trying to roll her and repeatedly pinning her to the bed, throwing a duvet over her head and injuring her.
