Care worker pleads guilty to raping elderly dementia patient

A CARE worker has admitted raping an elderly dementia patient at a care home in South Lanarkshire. Stephen Murray, 44, from Hamilton, pleaded guilty at the High Court in Glasgow to raping the woman at the care home.

• Stephen Murray pleads guilty to raping an elderly dementia patient and sexually assaulting two others

• “It is difficult to imagine a more despicable or serious breach of trust.”

He also admitted that he had sexually assaulted two other women who have dementia at the home.

The women are unable to speak or communicate with words.

The sex attacks took place between December 2010 and April 2012.

John Dunn, the procurator fiscal for the west of Scotland, said it was hard to think of a “more despicable” breach of trust.

“Stephen Murray has admitted to a course of conduct involving the rape of an elderly victim whom he had previously sexually assaulted and attempted to rape. He also admitted sexually assaulting two other elderly women.

“It is difficult to imagine a more despicable or serious breach of trust.”

Murray is due to be sentenced on July 23 at the High Court in Edinburgh.