article_snippet.sent: Chloe Pearsall, 26, (left) and Nicole Howley, 25 (right) committed the acts of abuse at the care home throughout 2013 Nicole Howley, 25 (right) have been jailed along with Nicole Howley, 25 (right) colleagues Joanne Fisher, 36, and Barbara Holcroft, 63 .
article_snippet.sent: Nicole Howley, 25, was jailed for two years this week after Carers was found guilty of two charges of ill-treating a person as a carer under the Mental Capacity Act.
article_snippet.sent: Colleagues Chloe Pearsall, 26, Joanne Fisher, 36, and Barbara Holcroft, 63, were convicted of one count of the same offence and sentenced to nine months each.
article_snippet.sent: they showed patients, Judge Sean Enright added, saying: ‘This was systematic ill-treatment.
article_snippet.sent: The case highlights the plight of many old and vulnerable people in the care system and hospitals.
article_snippet.sent: During a trial at Peterborough Magistrates Court earlier this year, co-worker Lanya Edwards described how the women, all from Peterborough, abused one resident with ‘quite advanced’ dementia.
article_snippet.sent: After the group were found guilty, magistrates decided to send the case to Peterborough Crown Court for sentencing because magistrates sentencing powers were insufficient to reflect the ‘gravitas of the offences and the vulnerability of the victims’.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for the care home said: ‘Everyone at the care home is deeply shocked by the deplorable behaviour of these experienced carers.
highlights_snippet.sent: All four care workers convicted and sentenced for
highlights_snippet.sent: the 'systematic abuse'
  Abuse committed in 2013 at Wentworth Croft Care Home in Cambridgeshire .