article_snippet.sent: A court heard how Roberts, 53, mistreated Phyllis Hadlow when the elderly widow was being treated at Canterbury Hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Roberts was found guilty of one count of ill-treatment or wilful neglect of a person without capacity following a two-day trial - but avoided a prison sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Healthcare assistant Lisa Ross said Roberts told Healthcare assistant Lisa Ross: 'I have had enough of this.
article_snippet.sent: Roger Davies, defending, said Roberts had wrecked a lifelong career and was now unemployable as a nursing assistant.
article_snippet.sent: Roberts, from Deal, Kent & Canterbury Hospital was suspended after the incident in October 2013 and then sacked.
article_snippet.sent: Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, said: 'Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust are very sorry for the care Mrs Hadlow received whilst in Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust hospital and for the distress this would have caused to Mrs Hadlow and Mrs Hadlow family. '
article_snippet.sent: As soon as Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust were made aware of these allegations in October 2013 Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust suspended Roberts, referred the incident to the police and subsequently dismissed Roberts following a disciplinary hearing.'
article_snippet.sent: Julie Pearce, chief nurse and director of quality for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust were told the sentence was one step below being sent to prison, but the sentence will also have ended her career.'
article_snippet.sent: Roberts was given a one-year community order, which includes 120 hours of unpaid work, and was ordered to pay £750 costs.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nurse Deborah Roberts admitted wilfully neglecting Phyllis Hadlow Phyllis Hadlow but will not be jailed .