Tina Bardsley (from Grimsby) teased, humiliated, bullied, threatened and abused 78-year-old John Wheatley, who has since passed away. She forced him to hold a sex toy for a picture, and told him he would be castrated.
UPDATE 25th July LINK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/carerswantcompetence/posts/597119587638730?__tn__=K-R
She abused John at Cathedral Nursing Home in Lincoln when she was the manager. We’ve been told that her sister (Maria Gatt) and another staff member were also present (we have a name – just waiting for confirmation on a picture).
Residents with dementia were given the owner’s dog bowls to eat from. (CQC report summer 2018).
Bardsley had taken over from her sister, Maria Gatt (recently deceased) in August 2018. Don’t like to speak ill of the dead but all you have to do is look at the CQC reports to see a connection in the terrible way that place was run by these sisters.
Residents were regularly forced to sit in their own urine and faeces, left in wet and soiled pads for several hours.
A CQC inspector witnessed Staff at this home talking down to residents – as if they were nothing but pieces of shxt. They treated residents with a lack of dignity and disrespect. They didn’t bother to engage, treated them like naughty children.
He also saw a resident coughing up phlegm on their own clothes and choking on it, while fully aware staff ignored the distress. It could even be said that staff were blatantly hostile to the residents.
One carer said her name and signature was fraudulently written in a log indicating she had bathed and shaved a male resident on a date when it was actually her day off
Residents ignored and left alone while senior staff stood outside smoking and gas-bagging.
Lincolnshire Police refused to take any further action – It was not a CPS decision.
They say “the evidence available does not support a prosecution”.
Detective Inspector David McKean, from Lincolnshire Police’s protecting vulnerable people unit, said: “Following our investigation no further action will be taken.
In this case following our investigation the evidence available didn’t support a prosecution.
We have been in contact with the victim’s family to explain the decision.
Sadly, Mr Wheatley died while our investigation was ongoing. I would like to take this opportunity to pass my condolences on to Mr Wheatley’s family and friends.”
The family of Mr Wheatley, who passed away in November 2019, feel let down by the announcement.
John’s nephew Stuart Wheatley, said: “We are very saddened and disappointed by the news that the police have decided not to pursue Tina Bardsley and her colleagues involved in the abuse of our uncle.
We strongly believe that justice has not been carried out. These people used an elderly and vulnerable man to inflict their cruel, emotional torment onto him over a sustained period of time.
We feel let down, firstly by the people entrusted to care for him and secondly by the organisation responsible for serving justice when this trust was grossly abused.
I’d like to say that the communication from the police after the initial media interest was non-existent.
It was near impossible to speak to the officers involved in the investigation to get any kind of progress report.
We are only thankful that after the abuse came to light, our uncle wasn’t overly aware of the situation, which avoided any further distress.
We’d also like to thank the new owners and staff at the Cathedral Nursing Home for the care he received following the abuse.
Sadly, John passed away in November 2019 at the age of 78 and we are sorry that those responsible for causing him such distress near the end of his life were not brought to justice.
We will now decide as a family whether to take personal legal action against those responsible.”
Full transcript of the video, which is believed to have been filmed in May 2018.
Bardsley, a Grimsby mum-of-two, was suspended from her job at the Lincoln carehome and later resigned when the video became public in January 2019. She attended a voluntary police interview.
The video begins with Bardsley badgering John about what he had said to a woman who had just been to see him.
Tina: “You missed her so much…”
John replied: “I could have eaten her.”
Tina: “You could have eaten her? Do you want to eat me?”
John: “No. It’s only a matter of saying.”
Tina: “Would you like to eat me?”
John: “No I wouldn’t.”
Tina: “Why not?”
John: “Because I don’t want to eat you.”
Tina: “Why? I’m nice.”
John: “You’re what?”
Tina: “I said: ‘I’m nice. I’m a nice person.”
John: “Oh, you’re a nice person are you?”
Tina: “Why wouldn’t you want to eat me?
John: “I don’t want to eat you.”
Tina: “Sing that song about the people.”
John: “No.”
Tina: sings in her evil voice “I hate people, I hate people.”
John: “I’m not singing that song.”
Tina: (again in an evil voice” People are despicable creatures. [Speaks] Come on sing it.”
John: “No.”
Tina: “Jeremy Corbyn says you’ve got to.”
John: “No he did not.”
Tina: “Yes he did.”
John: “You’re a liar.”
Tina: “He said you’ve got to sing it.”
John: “No he didn’t.”
Tina: “Yes he did. He said you have to sing it otherwise he’s going to take your stick off you.”
John: “You’re not taking my stick off me.”
Tina: “Yes, he said that and he said that you have gay tendencies and you like to go up men’s bums.”
John: “I don’t have gay tendencies.”
Tina: “What about that woman who was in your bed?”
John: “I told her to clear off.”
Tina: “Yeah, well, I bet…I did not get told that. I got told that you got into bed with her.”
John: “I never.”
Tina: “You might have impregnated her.”
John: “Don’t be stupid.”
Tina: “Why?”
John: “I did not touch her.”
Tina: “Well she said that you did.”
John: “That’s a lie.”
Tina: “You were making sexual advances towards her.”
John: “I did not make advances.”
Tina: “Yes you did.”
John: “No I didn’t.”
Tina: “You’ve got some Bermuda shorts haven’t you?”
John: “Hey?”
Tina: [repeats the question]
John: “No I haven’t.”
Tina: “Yes you have.”
John: says he does not wear Bermuda shorts]
Tina: “Ah, I forgot, you like wearing frilly dresses don’t you?
John: “No I don’t
Tina: “Shall we put a dress on you?”
John: “No I’m not wearing a dress.”
Tina: “Why?”
John: “I’m not.”
Tina: “A frilly dress.”
John: “I’m not wearing a frilly dress.”
Tina: “What about frilly knickers?”
R: “I’m not wearing frilly knickers either.”
Tina: “What about a bow in your head?”
John: “Hey?”
Tina: “A bow in your head.”
John: “I’m not having a bow in my head.”
Tina: “A curler in your head.”
John: “I’m not wearing a curler in my head.”
Tina: “Pass me your stick, I’ll get it done up, come on.”
John: “No.”
Tina: “Pass me the stick.”
John: “No.”
Tina: “Why?”
John: “I’m not passing you it.”
Tina: “Why not?”
John: “Because I’m not giving you it.”
Tina threatened to get someone to open the curtains in John’s room.
The footage ends with John asking: “Can I go now?”
The bullying abuse is said to have happened before current owner St Philips Care Ltd took over, but we’ve just received an arrogant threat from Paul Farmer sent via Jan (joey) Knight. They’re extremely concerned that what happened at Cathedral Care Home is getting attention.
We have also had current concerns sent to us about this ‘care’ provider that is ringing alarm bells.
Our way of thinking is that an innocent care provider would not be threatening, they would engage. Is there anything to hide??
Now if any of the ‘dedicated’ staff are so distressed at this post, why aren’t they speaking out? Have St Philips Care alias Ideal Carehomes silenced them? They sacked a care-worker for daring to show an article to another colleague?
In 2018 unsafe, uncaring and inadequate under Maria Gatt’s – Hayworth Care Limited.
A follower of ours contacted the chief constable of Lincs police, who ‘ADMITTED and AGREED that it reached the threshold for prosecution, but refuses to explain why they’re not prosecuting’.
Something isn’t right about this, so much more than meets the eye. The notion has crossed my mind as to whether there may be a hint of venality.
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