Manchester United are back in Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Brentford on Saturday night.
14.03.2024 - 08:03 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Hospital security staff battered a vulnerable patient leaving him covered in bruises in a ‘shocking display of abuse of power’. The suicidal victim had been rushed to North Manchester General Hospital in an ambulance after taking an overdose.
After being seen in a cubicle within the hospital by medical staff, he was left alone with four security guards who had been called in because he had become ‘difficult to manage’, Manchester Crown Court heard. But over an hour period, three male security staff launched an appalling assault on him, hitting him over the head 46 times, slapping him and placing him in painful restraint positions.
Supervisor Abdul Saleem, 36, from Stretford, Trafford, and Darling Owa, 55, from Chadderton, Oldham, were hauled before a judge after their own body-worn cameras filmed the entire attack. They both pleaded guilty to assaulting the 43-year-old and have since lost their jobs at the Crumpsall hospital.
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A third guard, Benjamin Monese, 39, from Farnworth, Bolton, was previously sentenced. A fourth guard present was not charged.
A judge described the episode as a ‘shocking display of abuse of power’. “He should have been safe but instead he was subjected to prolonged and persistent abuse when he was vulnerable, and supposedly in a place of safety,” Judge Kate Cornell said.
“He was not violent, and he was not particularly agitated. He didn’t need restraint.”
Prosecutors told how the victim was transported to the hospital in an ambulance after he’d taken an overdose. He had been seen by medics, who had called security staff for help after the man became ‘difficult to manage’ as he kept getting out of bed.
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Manchester United are back in Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Brentford on Saturday night.
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