A carer was jailed after being caught on camera telling an elderly woman: "I hope you die in your sleep."
Louise Harris, 42, from Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, was sentenced to three months in prison for abusing 81-year-old dementia sufferer Elizabeth Anne Shipton.
Ms Harris had been on a trial shift as a carer when she was filmed kneeling beside Ms Shipton’s bed, putting her arm on the pensioner’s chest, and demanding to know where her money was.
She shouted: "I hope you die in your sleep you f***ing horrible cow."
Ms Shipton protested that Ms Harris was hurting her, but the carer replied: "I don't care, where's your money?"
Her daughter, Tracy, said her mother was "horrifically traumatised" and that her mental scars "will never go".
Judge Huw Rees, sentencing at Swansea Crown Court, said Ms Harris had been "heartless and cruel" and showed a "callous disregard" for Ms Shipton’s welfare.
The judge said elderly people were entitled to be treated with "respect, dignity, and humanity."
Abud Hussain, prosecuting, said Ms Shipton lay helpless in her bed, fearing she was going to die, and that the aggression had ruined her memories of her family home of some 60 years.
Ms Harris, who had no previous convictions, pleaded guilty to being a care worker who ill-treated the victim and to criminal damage.
A more serious charge of attempted robbery was dropped prior to sentencing.
Andrew Evans, defending, said Ms Harris was "genuinely remorseful" for her actions, which he said were the result of drinking vodka found in the fridge.
She was described as a recovering alcoholic who had “succumbed to temptation.”
Ms Shipton’s family had known Ms Harris for years and had trusted her to care for the pensioner.
The abuse took place during her first and only shift.
Tracy, who was present for the first hour, said: "She was meant to stay for four hours. I was there for the first hour and Louise seemed amazing. Almost as soon as I left she turned."
After downing vodka, Ms Harris became aggressive and abusive, shouting obscenities and waving a knife around the kitchen.
Tracy checked security footage remotely and witnessed the abuse in progress.
She said: "The police had to break the door down because she'd been waving a knife. Louise told my mum she lived up the road and would be coming back.
"My mum can't be left on her own at all now.
"She keeps thinking Louise is going to come back and she has such vivid flashbacks that she's been put on sedatives."
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