Two Nurses Sent to Prison for Drugging Patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Two nurses, Charlotte Wilmot, 48, and Catherine Hudson, 54, have been sentenced for drugging patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2017 and 2018. The son of one of the victim’s said his mother was left afraid of ever going back to a hospital after surviving her ordeal. Lancashire Police released images of some of the messages the two nurses sent to each other, in which they appear to ridicule their victims. The pair were also convicted of offences relating to stealing drugs from the hospital along with three other members of staff. Both nurses received prison sentences. Report by Gracex. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Two nurses, Charlotte Wilmott, 48, and Catherine Hudson, 54, have been sentenced for drugging
00:07 patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2017 and 2018.
00:13 In this evidence that was put before the jury, Catherine Hudson talks of having, as she put
00:19 it, sedated all the troublemakers and sedating the one who can be a nightmare. In summary,
00:26 these offences of ill treatment were committed by these defendants whose duty was to protect
00:31 and care for them. The patients were as vulnerable as anyone could be. They couldn't leave the
00:38 stroke unit. Some of them found it difficult to make themselves understood. These defendants
00:44 exploited them for an easy shift, for amusement, to exercise a contemptuous power over them.
00:51 The son of one of the victims said his mother was left afraid of ever going back to a hospital
00:56 after surviving her ordeal.
00:58 Absolutely, I believe it is. It's pure evil in my mind. That wasn't just something that
01:04 they went, you know, there's a lot of planning that was going on in that. You could hear
01:09 that through these messages, the way they were speaking about the patients, they were
01:13 planning what they were going to do that night to those patients. And I think in terms of
01:18 just everything, as I say, it was evil. And my mum was never a problem to those nurses.
01:24 The nurses did nothing but speak highly of my mum. She had a really good bond with the
01:29 student nurse that whistleblowed, you know, the conversations. And I think for me as well,
01:34 for my mum being in hospital away from home, what could have been the outcome? My mum could
01:39 have passed away as a result of some of their actions. I don't know. Thankfully she hasn't,
01:44 but it is, it's evil. And the way they've spoken about other patients is absolutely disgusting.
01:51 Lancashire Police released this image of some of the messages the two nurses sent to each
01:55 other in which they appear to ridicule their victims. The pair were also convicted of offences
02:02 relating to stealing drugs from the hospital, along with three other members of staff. Both
02:08 nurses received prison sentences, with Hudson sentenced to seven years and two months and
02:14 Wilmot sentenced to three years.
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