Former nurse jailed for punching elderly man in nursing home

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SINGAPORE: A former nurse was sentenced to 12 weeks' jail on Wednesday (Mar 6) for punching an elderly man in a nursing home last year. Bernardo ...

SINGAPORE: A former nurse was sentenced to 12 weeks' jail on Wednesday for punching an elderly man in a nursing home last year.

A colleague of his, nursing assistant Dasanayak Achchillage Saman Kumara, was also in the room distributing clothes to the patients.This woke the elderly man, who suffers from dementia. He sat up on the bed and shouted:"Who disturb me?"At this, the victim hit Ramos once on his chest, Deputy Public Prosecutor Benjamin Samynathan told the court.

Mr Kumara left the room to inform his supervisor, but Ramos looked at him threateningly, telling him not to do so.

 

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