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A Nigerian caregiver, Bilikesu Olagunju, was caught on hidden camera violently mistreating a frail 88-year-old dementia patient in his UK home, just a day before he was found unresponsive and later died in hospital.

The shocking CCTV footage, filmed on Christmas Eve 2022 at John Attard’s residence in Bexley, Kent, shows Olagunju dragging the elderly man across the floor, stripping him, threatening violence, and ignoring his repeated cries of pain. “Maybe I will beat you up. I will flog you. I will take you to the GP to get injections. I will call the police on you,” she said during the 45-minute ordeal, reports DailyMail.

Olagunju, 42, who had been on the job just six days with care agency Unique Personnel UK, pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to one count of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting an individual in her care. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to complete 50 hours of unpaid work.

The next morning, Mr Attard was discovered unresponsive by his son, Chris, with blood dripping down the side of his face. He was rushed to hospital but never regained consciousness, dying 10 days later. Although a post-mortem could not confirm direct causation, his family believes the trauma hastened his death.

“If those cameras had not been there, that person could still be out there treating elderly people like this,” said Chris Attard. “I was expecting a suspended sentence, but the length and community service aspect is an insult. What kind of a deterrent is that?”

The court reviewed a breakdown of the footage, which began with Olagunju arriving at 11:20 a.m. to bathe Mr Attard and prepare breakfast. She is seen shouting at him to stand, stripping him in view of the street, and dragging him by the collar and arm.

At one point, she calls her employer to report that Mr Attard is on the floor and is advised not to move him but to call an ambulance. She ignores this and continues to haul him up, complaining “a man” should have been sent for the task.

Olagunju is also seen pouring marmalade into Mr Attard’s coffee despite his diabetes, removing his table and spilling hot coffee on him. Throughout, he pleads: “You are hurting me.” She responds: “Me, I’ll flog you, flog you,” and again: “Maybe I’ll beat you up. I’ll flog you. Take you to hospital, take you to GP to give injections and police.”

Chris Attard described his father’s face during the abuse as “distorted” with discomfort and pain. “She is physically trying to lift him like a rag doll. His face indicates the discomfort and pain he is feeling,” he told the court. “She lifts him off the floor, dragging him toward his armchair. He tells her: ‘My head is banging.’”

He added, “It was Christmas morning when I found my 88-year-old father unresponsive in bed. He was rushed to hospital and his room was declared a crime scene.”

Chris, who wept as he addressed the court, said: “Three days after he was admitted to hospital I wrote a victim impact statement. My last words read: ‘I am yet to discover the long-term effect this may have on my dad, and his physical and mental welfare.’ Well, now I know – he never recovered and died seven days later in hospital.”

Addressing Olagunju, he said: “When all of this becomes a distant memory for you, our pain will still be here. You can never ever take back the memories you left my father with at the end of his life, and the memories you have now left us with, for the rest of our lives. If you find it hard to understand how I feel, then just imagine it was me assaulting your loved one on that CCTV, and I’m the one standing where you are now – what sentence would you like this court to give me?”

Judge Charlotte Welsh said: “Frankly it beggars belief that someone would be allocated an elderly man with dementia as their first client. Being a carer is a very, very difficult job and frankly people don’t appreciate it until they need it. I am convinced that you had not received the sufficient training.”

She added: “Your actions are evident of your failure to treat Mr Attard as a person deserving of as much dignity and respect as the rest of us… They have lost a father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, and their memories of him are now tainted by what they have seen on the CCTV footage – and the way you behaved towards him.”

Olagunju cried silently in court during the hearing. Her lawyer, Mr Tijani, told the court she accepted full responsibility and was “ashamed” of her actions. “She accepts that she failed in her duty as a carer. She has been suffering from mental anguish as a result of this incident and has instructed me to tell the family she is very sorry.”

In mitigation, Tijani said she had no prior convictions and had only just arrived in the UK, with Mr Attard as her first patient. “On the CCTV, you can see a woman who was not trained properly to deal with the situation she was faced with.”

Following sentencing, Chris Attard turned his attention to Unique Personnel UK, accusing the company of negligence. “From now on that woman is out of my head, and my mission is to expose this company – Unique Personnel,” he said. “They should have been in the dock alongside [Olagunju]. Had they done their due diligence she never would have been sent near an elderly person.”

“This is a care company sending people to the homes of elderly and vulnerable people and putting them at risk of harm. They tried to excuse it by saying she had only been there six days. But where were the checks and the training?”

The news outlet noted that Unique Personnel UK had not commented on the incident at the time of the report.

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Chai! This is inhumane. Don't do a crime in white man's land if you're black and your back is not well covered. They will screw and nail you well. Now, they will charge her for manslaughter. So JAPA don't become SAPA in jail.

Yari-banzah and wickedness on the beat again, spits!

She forgot that she is going to get old someday, treat old people with respect.

This is what happens when you don't have passion for being a caregiver but just want to use any nook and cranny to "japa"

You're calling your employer to complain the man is on the floor, somebody that is old and probably can't even stand or walk on his own. The employer told you not to move him and call an ambulance yet you refused and proceeded to ragdoll the poor man across the room. Wicked woman!

I don't even understand this UK justice system. It's soo lenient like their judges and prosecutors are bunch of liberal pussssiiiieess if not tell me how this woman didn't get to rest in jail for at least a couple years??

Another ogbänje again. Imagine what she will do to her husband 🤷

kushercain:
This is what happens when you don't have passion for being a caregiver but just want to use any nook and cranny to "japa"

You're calling your employer to complain the man is on the floor, somebody that is old and probably can't even stand or walk on his own. The employer told you not to move him and call an ambulance yet you refused and proceeded to ragdoll the poor man across the room. Wicked woman!

I don't even understand this UK justice system. It's soo lenient like their judges and prosecutors are bunch of liberal pussssiiiieess if not tell me how this woman didn't get to rest in jail for at least a couple years??

U nailed it again and again.
Most people into such in diaspora would not have submitted themselves for such if they had options. They were never passionate about it hence the endless sequential disaster.
An ideal compasionate Nurse, physical therapist or doctor in Nigeria who successfully leaves Nigeria would never do such.
Terrible and Despicable.
The UK, US or prime ministers never forced you to JaPa. It was solely by your decision

This one don japa enter jail. You leave Nigeria to go and become a househelp

one can only imagine what this person would have done if she were in a nigerian facility where there are zero consequences

The other guy who work in the UK hospital almost raped his patient.........Now this one again

God knows I can't do this job cos I'd probably do worse things when irritated

Caregiving job is not for everybody. I go travel all the way from Naija to UK just to dey pack Oyibo shit. Tufiakwa I no fit abeg.

They better let her rot in ja!l !!! What she did was inhuman, I watched the video and I’m so appalled by her animal!st!c behavior.

Like she wasn’t paid for the inconveniences? Like she wasn’t paid to do her job? Is dragging part of her job?? Some people sef na injection dem suppose dey give them.

If she doesn’t have stay Abhi wetin dem Dey call am, make dem send werey come back home, make we gather dey shout sir T name together, w£r£y !

These same people are the kind we have as medical workers here in our country. They have zero passion for humanity work, they have zero sympathy and compassion for humans, they just wanna make the money with zero passion for the job

This is what apc has turned Nigerians into

Become a degree holder, save some bucks then travel to be doing menial jobs for the whites, including washing some old men axx

If you're not a very patient, kind and emotionally intelligent person, stay away from jobs like nanny work, elder care, healthcare, education, especially early childhood education.

These jobs can frustrate you and if you're not careful, you're gonna be in trouble...

I told a lady some days ago that records show women are more likely to abuse weaker people, she thought I just disliked women.

Very soon some women will look for a way to justify her actions.

They want the old man to kill the caregiver ,this might be self defence, old whites are very aggressive

Pluto33:
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She thinks UK is Nigeria where you cam do any how now she will learn a hard way

Wahala no too much .. if na naija now . Make i no talk lol

You see, most people who come here to call people bitter people have bitterness buried inside their DNA.


They will also shout giving Nigeria bad names up and down, but if you check carefully they are the originators of bad names, even their so called president is not exempted.

How can you go outside Nigeria to practice bitterness and still shout bitter people up and down?

Is hypocrisy a way of life abeg?

I'm just asking because I'm confused here.


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Japa, only to enter prison get banned from Europe n USA still get deported after spending several millions.
It's well with her.

Dis one don Jones oh.... Jst 6 days on d job... U Don dey beat up person

Na she. The bleeding gender of Delilah descendant

Racoon:
Chai! This is inhumane. Don't do a crime in white man's land if you're black and your back is not well covered. They will screw and nail you well. Now, they will charge him for manslaughter. So JAPA don't become SAPA in jail.

That job isn't easy if you don't want
Don't do ...
But would be quick to call Police on their Husbands....
What they would never attempt in Nigeria they would do worse abroad...
Particularly women from Nigeria, Ghana

Apart from doing "care work", please also care to read the news. Was it not this year 4 Nigerians were jailed for maltreating some old people?

Look, no employer will trust someone's life on that level without monitoring. Certainly not the children of thise cared for. Once you are employed, assume you are monitored. If those you are caring for insult you using slurs (they usually do), think of the pounds sterling. Do the pound to naira conversion, think of the duplex you'd build and collect the insult with smiles and pack the sheet with pride. Let the smell of the sheet be your laughing gas and laugh away the insults! If you raise your hand, you'd end up in jail.

If you think you can't do the care job, resign and do not destroy opportunities for others.