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A NURSE who tied up an 85-year-old dementia patient with a dressing gown belt to restrain her at an East Lancashire care home has been convicted of ill-treatment by magistrates.

Michael Tinker, 53, was caught out by shocked colleagues Gina Hill and Abigail Jacobs as he walked frail Avis Ramsbottom from a dining room to a residents' lounge at Haslingden Hall and Lodge, a court heard

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/ne ... gown_belt/

Whatever is wrong with people, it's sickening.