Fife carer Liam Stark assaulted elderly woman and took Snapchat videos of her unclothed

A carer has been banned from working in the profession after being convicted of assaulting an elderly woman and filming her while she was undressed.

Liam Stark was convicted of three offences at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court including assaulting the female care home resident on the breasts in July 27, 2022.

At an unknown location in Fife in August of the same year, he was found to have sent Snapchat videos of an elderly woman with no capacity, in a state of undress.

Stark mocked the vulnerable woman in the “grossly offensive” video.

The court also found that Stark – who was employed as a senior care assistant at a care home – had taken a video of another woman, who he had previously assaulted, while she was undressed.

The carer was found to have “sung a song and made inappropriate comments about the woman’s state of undress” amounting to a breach of the peace charge.

Stark has been banned from the profession by the Scottish Social Services Council who ruled that he had “knowingly and deliberately caused emotional harm” to his victim by assaulting her.

Their report added: “Sending such a video to a third party was a gross breach of the service user’s privacy.

“This behaviour amounts to an abuse of trust of your position and is indicative of a deep-seated attitudinal issue that is fundamentally incompatible with professional registration with the SSSC.

“The behaviour resulting in conviction was in the course of your employment and for your humorous gratification and the assault resulting in conviction was intentionally harmful behaviour.”

Stark was said to have shown no insight or remorse into his behaviour and didn’t engage with the SSSC investigation.