A CARE assistant who told a colleague “let’s drown the b****” as they bathed a vulnerable patient at a care home has been spared jail.

Annamaria McPadden, 36, said she “wished the straps would snap” on the hoist 63-year-old Janette Griffin was being moved into a bath with.

While working with the vulnerable resident, McPadden said she “couldn’t take to” the pensioner.

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Her colleague, 23-year-old Paige Finlay, gave evidence at her trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court earlier this year.

McPadden, from Tollcross, was convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards Mrs Griffin at Golfhill Care Home in Dennistoun on July 11 last year.

Today, sheriff Mary McCrory handed her a community payback order, as an alternative to custody, and ordered she carries out 150 hours of unpaid work within four months.

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The charge had initially included that McPadden allegedly sprayed water in Mrs Griffin's eyes and sprayed deodorant in her face - but sheriff Mary McCrory deleted those parts of the charge.

She said she was there was sufficient evidence to convict her and that Ms Finlay was was a credible and reliable witness.

Defence lawyer Jack Brown made a legal submission on the last occasion, that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict  but the sheriff rejected that and ultimately convicted McPadden.