- Worried family hid secret surveillance cameras around the man's room
- Rita Page and Lynette Crook were filmed in Bury, Greater Manchester
- Crook jabbed patient in torso and head with a pen whilst he was asleep
- Page slapped victim during struggle when she put pillow between legs
- Relatives launch petition for cameras in care homes for vulnerable people
- Page pleads guilty to two abuse charges and Crook pleads guilty to three
Shocking footage shows Rita Page, 68, and Lynette Crook, 33, smacking the young victim's legs and swearing at him as they changed his bedding at a £3,000-a-week Priory care home.
On the recording, made after relatives became concerned about his treatment at the private hospital, Page can be heard insulting the helpless patient as a 'b*****d' and a 'dirty scummy boy'.
She also tells her colleague 'there's this very fine line between abuse and neglect'.
Crook is captured telling the patient: 'I don't do sick, so stop it, scummy lad.'
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