The husband of a care home manager was today branded 'cruel and almost sadistic' by a judge after he physically and mentally abused four dementia patients.
Vicious Malcolm Cramp dragged an 81-year-old woman out of her chair and tied down a 97-year-old woman with a blanket during the year he worked at Brockshill Woodlands home in Oadby, Leicester.
He 'punished' the same patient by trapping her in a room with no light on, despite knowing she was afraid of the dark.
Cramp, 52, then tucked the terrified Alzheimer's sufferer into her bed so tightly she screamed out in distress.
He has now been jailed for 12 months for his aggression towards the four women, all in their 80s and 90s.
The abuse took place between February 2009 and January 2010, when he was working at the home run by then-wife Michelle.
He was convicted at Leicester Crown Court on seven counts of ill-treating four people 'who lacked capacity'.
Foul-mouthed Cramp - who is now divorced - regularly swore at patients, ordering them to be in bed by 8pm before his shift started.
Jailing him last Friday, Judge Simon Hammond blasted him for failing to treat his patients with 'dignity, respect and understanding'.
He said: 'It became apparent to members of staff, but not his then-wife, he
was unsuitable for such work...
His wife was cleared of wrongdoing, but it seems rather shocking that she was unaware of the abuse her husband was giving to vulnerable people.
Malcolm Cramp should have got twelve years, not twelve months. What a laughable sentence.
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