Nurse filmed assaulting dementia patient, 80, on daughter's secret camera

A nurse secretly filmed attacking an elderly Alzheimer’s sufferer in her care home bed was jailed yesterday.

Jonathan Aquino, 30, was caught when Jane Worroll suspected her mother Maria, 80, was being mistreated and hid a camera in her bedroom.

In the harrowing images, Aquino is seen to suddenly strike the retired school canteen manager in the face before slapping her arms repeatedly. 


The Filipino, who has an 18 month-old daughter, then finishes the attack by hitting Mrs Worroll in her abdomen four times.

Sentencing Aquino to 18 months in jail, Judge Henry Blacksell QC told the nurse he was guilty of a ‘dreadful breach of trust’.        Read Here