A NURSE has been convicted of striking elderly patients with a pillow, kicking them onto their beds and forcing them to the ground with "controlled assistance".
Amanda Manuel, 30, of Greenwith, showed little emotion as the Adelaide Magistrates Court today found her guilty of five counts of assault.
Magistrate Peter Snopek ruled that, in January and February 2008, she assaulted one woman twice, a man once and another woman twice more.
He found her not guilty of two further allegations - that she pushed an elderly man into a toilet and then dragged him several metres across the floor.
Manuel's case began in December 2008, when she was charged with seven counts of assault.
Her identity was suppressed by court order until February 2009, when The Advertiser had the ban overturned by the Supreme Court.
The identities of her victims, however, and the name and location of the nursing home in which she worked, remain suppressed.
Manuel - who pleaded not guilty in October - has worn a series of disguises throughout her court appearances.
At first, she wore black business suits, dark glasses and a short, black wig to hide her long blonde hair.
Today, she wore a long red wig.
In court, Mr Snopek ruled Manuel had hit one female patient with a pillow and "punted" another in the back to force her onto a bed.
He further found she had applied force to the back of a man's knee in what she called a "controlled assistance to the floor".
Manuel was remanded on continuing bail for sentencing next
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