PERTH CARE WORKER JILL FYFFE BANNED AFTER ATTACKING ELDERLY WOMAN AND KICKING POLICE OFFICER
A Perth care worker who attacked an 80-year-old woman has been banned from the sector.Jill Fyffe assaulted the elderly woman and kicked a police officer, then attempted to blame her conduct on low blood sugar levels.
She claimed she was experiencing a hypoglycaemic attack when she was observed in a parked vehicle punching passenger Rosemary Thomson, 80.
Fyffe denied allegations of assaulting Ms Thomson—who was in her care at the time—and also failed to cooperate with breath tests, additionally kicking a police officer on an unclassified road near Wellwood, Longforgan, on April 22, 2020.
She was found guilty at the end of a three-day trial in February.
Fyffe, who is diabetic, was sentenced to a ban from driving for two years, placed on a curfew, and fined £500.
Following an investigation, the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has banned her from working in the care sector, stating: “Your convictions call into question your suitability to work as a social service worker, particularly as they were committed in the course of supporting AA [the victim], which demonstrates that you are willing to place other people at risk of harm.” The report added: “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.
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.”
