Horrified dad watches as carer snorts drugs near severely disabled son after deliberately reducing his medicine dose

A dad watched in horror as a carer snorted lines of amphetamine near his severely disabled son - after deliberately reducing the patient's medicine dose.



In shocking CCTV footage, Thomas Harris checks nobody is looking then sniffs drugs with the vulnerable man in the same room just feet away and out of camera shot.



Harris, who was supposedly looking after the patient, also reduced his medication because he thought 'he was better off without it,' Chronicle Live reports.



The horrified father of the disabled man watched in disbelief on a live stream after setting up covert cameras in his son’s Newcastle home due to his suspicions about the care he was receiving.



Harris had also taken the irresponsible decision to reduce the victim’s medication while on a trip to Center Parcs, in the Lake District, leading to a worsening of his mental state.



A court heard the victim has Fragile X and autism and has the mental capacity of a four to five-year-old needs round the clock care.



Harris, 56, had been one of the victim’s carers for a decade, was considered almost one of the family and has left the man’s parents feeling betrayed by his neglect of their loved one.



After seeing him walk free from Newcastle Crown Court on a suspended sentence, the man’s mum said she has been off work sick since the revelation of what had been happening.