A CARER who subjected three vulnerable residents at a care home to 'unnecessary and unjustified abuse' walked free from court last week.

Gloucester Crown Court heard that Brent Morgan, aged 46, of Eastern Avenue, Mitcheldean stood on the feet of an 18-year-old woman with severe learning difficulties and made her scream.

He forced his fingers into the mouth of a 47-year-old man with a severe behavioural disorder and made it bleed.

And he shut another man in his 40s out of the home – sometimes wearing only socks or slippers in bad weather – if the man became 'loud and agitated.'

The abuse all happened at the Woodlands Care Home in Longhope, where Morgan was a senior support worker and his wife Marie, was the manager.

Judge, Recorder John Trevaskis, said he did not feel, in view of Morgan's previous good character and positive testimonials, that the offences needed immediate custody.

Morgan was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment suspended for two years. He was also ordered to do 240 hours of unpaid work for the community.

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