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Two nurses drugged patients on a hospital stroke unit for their ‘own amusement’ and an ‘easy life’ during shifts, a jury heard today.
Catherine Hudson, 54, and Charlotte Wilmot, 48, are also said to have targeted patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital if they disliked them or their relatives.
In one text message to a colleague about an alleged victim, a court heard Hudson wrote: ‘I sedated one of them to within an inch of her life lol.
‘Bet she’s flat for a week haha xxx.’
In others, jurors were told Hudson wrote that she was going to ‘kill bed 5’ and planned to give one patient ‘the best sleep she ever had’.
‘What a lovely day I have had in blue bay today,’ Hudson wrote in a message read to the jury.
‘Sedated all the troublemakers lol xxx.’
Opening the case at Preston Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Wright said: ‘We say the defendants treated patients not with care and compassion, but with contempt.
‘They considered them, or some of them, to be an imposition, an irritation.
‘Patients were ill-treated.
‘They were sedated either for the amusement of these defendants or simply to keep them quiet and to make their life easier, and their work less onerous or arduous.’
He said the defendants ‘through their own mouths’ in those messages had revealed a ‘culture of abuse’ on the unit.
A whistleblowing student nurse brought events she allegedly witnessed at the unit to the attention of the authorities in November 2018, the court heard.
Mr Wright said a detailed and lengthy investigation included an examination of the defendants’ electronic devices.
A message exchange between Hudson, an experienced Band 5 registered nurse, and Wilmot, a Band 4 assistant practitioner, about an elderly male patient was read to the court.
Hudson wrote: ‘I’m going to kill bed 5 xxx.’
Wilmot replied: ‘Pmsl (p****** myself laughing) well tonight sedate him to high heaven lol xxx.’
Hudson said: ‘Already in my head to give him double!!’
Another set of messages between the friends showed an ‘antipathy’ towards an elderly female patient and her daughter, said the prosecutor.
Wilmot wrote: ‘Give her the best sleep she ever had pmsl (laughing emojis) xxx’.
Hudson replied: ‘Permanently (laughing emojis) xxx’.
The Crown say Hudson bragged about sedating another patient to a healthcare assistant when she wrote: ‘I sedated on(e) of them to within an inch of her life lol. Bet she's flat for a week haha xxx.’
On the following day she inquired about the same patient to Wilmot.
Hudson wrote: ‘What’s bed 29 been doing today pmsfl. Not a f***ing lot I bet!! Seeing as I sedated her on sat and sun lol lol xxx.’
Court hears texts nurses sent after drugging patients for
Catherine Hudson, 54, and Charlotte Wilmot, 48, are also said to have targeted patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital if they disliked them or their relatives.
In one text message to a colleague about an alleged victim, a court heard Hudson wrote: ‘I sedated one of them to within an inch of her life lol.
‘Bet she’s flat for a week haha xxx.’
In others, jurors were told Hudson wrote that she was going to ‘kill bed 5’ and planned to give one patient ‘the best sleep she ever had’.
‘What a lovely day I have had in blue bay today,’ Hudson wrote in a message read to the jury.
‘Sedated all the troublemakers lol xxx.’
Opening the case at Preston Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Wright said: ‘We say the defendants treated patients not with care and compassion, but with contempt.
‘They considered them, or some of them, to be an imposition, an irritation.
‘Patients were ill-treated.
‘They were sedated either for the amusement of these defendants or simply to keep them quiet and to make their life easier, and their work less onerous or arduous.’
He said the defendants ‘through their own mouths’ in those messages had revealed a ‘culture of abuse’ on the unit.
A whistleblowing student nurse brought events she allegedly witnessed at the unit to the attention of the authorities in November 2018, the court heard.
Mr Wright said a detailed and lengthy investigation included an examination of the defendants’ electronic devices.
A message exchange between Hudson, an experienced Band 5 registered nurse, and Wilmot, a Band 4 assistant practitioner, about an elderly male patient was read to the court.
Hudson wrote: ‘I’m going to kill bed 5 xxx.’
Wilmot replied: ‘Pmsl (p****** myself laughing) well tonight sedate him to high heaven lol xxx.’
Hudson said: ‘Already in my head to give him double!!’
Another set of messages between the friends showed an ‘antipathy’ towards an elderly female patient and her daughter, said the prosecutor.
Wilmot wrote: ‘Give her the best sleep she ever had pmsl (laughing emojis) xxx’.
Hudson replied: ‘Permanently (laughing emojis) xxx’.
The Crown say Hudson bragged about sedating another patient to a healthcare assistant when she wrote: ‘I sedated on(e) of them to within an inch of her life lol. Bet she's flat for a week haha xxx.’
On the following day she inquired about the same patient to Wilmot.
Hudson wrote: ‘What’s bed 29 been doing today pmsfl. Not a f***ing lot I bet!! Seeing as I sedated her on sat and sun lol lol xxx.’
Court hears texts nurses sent after drugging patients for
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