Educator hangs himself after abuse conviction

(ANSA) - Vercelli, September 30 - A Polish educator who was found guilty of abusing elderly and disabled patients at the clinic where he worked hanged himself in his garden on Friday.
    Wlodzimier Wieslaw Winkler, 52, was sentenced on September 8 to spend four years six months in prison for abusing patients at La Consolata clinic in the village of Borgo D'Ale near the Piedmont city of Vercelli.
    It was the stiffest sentence handed down in a fast-track trial that saw another 17 defendants convicted.
    "I was painted as a monster, but I'm not like that," Winkler reportedly told a friend shortly before committing suicide.