A care assistant told a colleague “let’s drown the b****” as they bathed a vulnerable patient at a care home.

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.

When Miss Griffin yelled “nurse”, irate McPadden told her “Shut up or I will give you something to shout about.”

Her colleague 23-year-old Paige Finlay gave evidence at her trial at Glasgow Sheriff Court last month.

McPadden, from Tollcross, Glasgow was convicted of behaving in a threatening or abusive manner towards the Miss Griffin at Golfhill Care Home in the city’s Dennistoun area on July 11, last year.

The charge had alleged she sprayed water in Miss 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 Miss 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 yesterday and ultimately convicted McPadden.

It was heard Miss Griffin - who has since died - was bed bound, had trouble speaking, and needed help with daily tasks.

Cancer survivor Miss Griffin needed a hoist to be manoeuvred from her bed into a bath.

Miss Finlay said the resident would repeatedly shout “nurse” and could say “tea”, but mumbled a lot.