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Perth care worker who attacked 80-year-old woman banned from sector

Jill Fyffe tried to blame her conduct on low blood sugar levels.

Jill Fyffe.
Jill Fyffe.

A Perth care worker who attacked an 80-year-old woman has been banned from the sector.

Jill Fyffe attacked the elderly woman and kicked a police officer then tried to blame her conduct on low blood sugar levels.

She claimed she was having a hypoglycaemic attack when she was seen in a parked vehicle punching passenger Rosemary Thomson, 80.

Fyffe denied allegations she assaulted Ms Thomson – who was in her care at the time – failed to co-operate with breath tests and kicked a police officer on an unclassified road near Wellwood, Longforgan, on April 22 2020.

Perth care worker banned after attacking elderly woman and kicking police officer

She was found guilty at the end of a three-day trial in February.

Fyffe, who is diabetic, was placed on a curfew, banned from driving for two years and fined £500.

After an investigation, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has banned her from working in the care sector.

The SSSC report said: “Your convictions call into question your suitability to work as a social service worker, particularly as they were committed in the course of you supporting AA [the victim], which demonstrates that you are willing to place other people at risk of harm.

The Scottish Social Services offices at Compass House in Dundee. Image: SSSC

“Your behaviour falls far short of the standards expected of a social service worker and amounts to behaviour that is fundamentally incompatible with professional registration.”

It added: “While the behaviour that led to your convictions occurred on the same
date, it involved four separate incidents.

“They represent a loss of self-control and violate the fundamental tenets of the profession.”

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