Hospital security staff's attack on patient caught on their body cameras

HOSPITAL security staff battered a vulnerable patient, leaving him covered in bruises, in a 'shocking display of abuse of power!

- ANDREW BARDSLEY

The suicidal victim had been rushed to North Manchester General Hospital in an ambulance after taking an overdose on January 25 last year.

After being seen in a cubicle within the hospital by medical staff, he was left alone with four security guards who had been called in because he had become 'difficult to manage, Manchester Crown Court heard.

But over a one-hour period, three male security staff launched an appalling assault, hitting him over the head 46 times, slapping him and placing him in painful restraint positions.

Supervisor Abdul Saleem, 36, from Stretford, Trafford and Darling Owa, 55, from Chadderton, Oldham, were hauled before a judge after their own body-worn cameras filmed the entire attack. They both pleaded guilty to assaulting the 43-year-old and have since lost their jobs at the hospital.

A third guard, Benjamin Monese, 39, from Farnworth, Bolton, was previously sentenced. A fourth guard present was not charged.

A judge described the episode as a 'shocking display of abuse of power.