A Glasgow carer has been banned from working in the industry after being convicted of a string of violent attacks dating back more than 20 years.
Craig Charnley was convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court in May of vicious attacks on women between 1998 and 2019.
The former support worker was found to have repeatedly struck a woman's head against a bath, dragged her into a living room by the hair, and punched her on the head causing her to lose consciousness before pouring a can of lager over her head. She was left permanently disfigured from the attack.
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In a further attack on the same woman between January 2007 and December 2011, he put his arm around her neck, struck her head off of a cupboard, spit on her and repeatedly punched her on the body. He went on to pin her onto a couch and kick her on her head.
During another disgusting attack, Charnley repeatedly punched another woman on the body, called her derogatory names, threw her personal belongings onto a landing, pushed her against a wall and dragged her from the property.
He shouted racist remarks towards the same woman and two others and threw a knife at her. He pursued another person on one occasion pressing a stick against his neck restricting his breathing and pushing him against a table and wall before pulling him to the ground.
Charnley failed to tell the Scottish Social Services Council that he was charged with criminal offences and was pulled before a fitness to practice review.
The panel found that he had carried out serious and violent offences which were racially motivated. They added that his convictions portrayed a 'worrying attitudinal and character concerns'.
It added that he hadn't apologised, shown any insight into his behaviour or given reassurances that he wouldn't act in the same way again.
A report into his behaviour added: "Any similar behaviour involving a violent loss of self-control could place users of services and the wider public at significant risk of physical and/or emotional harm.
"Social service workers must also be reliable and dependable and inform their professional regulator of any criminal charges levelled against them. You failed to disclose that you had been charged with offences to your regulator, the SSSC."
Charnley was struck off the SSSC Register.
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