Ban for nurse who assaulted dwarf

A nursing home manager who shook and scratched a dwarf when the victim refused to come out of a broken lift has been suspended for 12 months. Two care assistants had already tried to coax out the female patient, 54, when Angela Laidler arrived on the scene in an attempt to persuade her to leave the faulty elevator. When the woman refused to leave the lift at the Redwell Hills Care Home, in Consett, County Durham, Laidler rammed a wheelchair…