Rapist nurse allowed to work with vulnerable hospital patients for a year – despite police warning he was a suspect

A rapist nurse Under the investigation, he was able to work freely for more than a year because the British Nursing Nursing Nursing Nursing Nursing, the police officials did not suspend him when he directed the authorities to him. Independent can reveal.

John Chukwunonso Iwuh, 54, South Norwood, Croydon, used his job as a psychiatric nurse Before the safety of the victim he met in an appointment application was raped him without pulling him home and rejecting his progress in June 2022.

Rape and x -rape were imprisoned for 16 years after being found guilty. Metropolitan police now He called for other potential victims to stand out After finding about 11,000 people on the civil servants – about 60 percent of the name of a woman’s name and a flirting application was recorded.

The Council of Nursing and Midwifery (NMC), which regulated more than 800,000 nurses and midwives in the UK, confessed that it did not move fast enough to suspend Iwuh after talking about the allegations. Now, after the confidence of the two hospitals he worked, he launched his own inquiry. Independent He informed them about his conviction.

News has been exposed to a series Independent– This revealed the concerns of a “toxic” culture that flies information. In NMC, some allowed the uncontrolled practice of bandit nurses accused of sexual assault.

Cannot be fast

After his arrest in June 2022, Met contacted NMC for the first time to realize his investigation into Iwuh. However, the regulatory did not take any action, and Iwuh was free to continue to work as a nurse without restriction.

NMC was approached by another woman who said that Iwuh raped him in April 2022 in June 2023, but no action was taken. In July 2024, he was arrested by the police for this attack and investigations are continuing.

At the end of the NMC, he opened an investigation against Iwuh on 25 October 2023 – a day after the MET police reported that he was accused of the rape of June 2022, he was now sentenced to run.

However, it took three more weeks for NMC to suspend him on November 13 – more than a year after the first told the police arrested to the regulator.

When questioned Independent The NMC spokesman about why he could not take action, admitted that he had to suspend Iwuh and that he had to report earlier complaints to NHS employers.

They said: ız We are aware that we can move faster to open our investigation and suspend Mr. Iwuh from the application. We also accept that we do not do enough to make sure that employers are aware of the temporary suspension order we have published later. ”

They said that NMC evaluated the actions of learning and said that after Iwuh’s sentence, he would “move it quickly to remove it from our record.”

In a statement, he added: “We take the allegations of sexual assault extremely seriously. He needs to trust the professionals who provide care of the public. Anyone who increases the concern deserves to be supported and rest.”

NMC said Iwuh has started a major return program since its case and was under new leadership. He brought improvements, including updating the guidance of advice on protection, and established a protection center that defines risks in all new cases and stimulates related bodies.

“We are building a new NMC, so we become a fair, effective and reliable regulator that the people deserve,” he said.

Two NHS Hospital Confidence, Central and North West London Foundation Foundation and Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Foundation Independent Iwuh understands that shifts were working until at least 2022, and now he was informed about his crime and he contacted patients about his employment and patients..

Chelsea and Westminster Foundation Trust, Iwuh’un working temporarily and intermittently by adding the following by adding the following, adding the following, “We condemn this individual’s actions and our thoughts with everyone who is affected.”

The Central and North West London Foundation Foundation, Iwuh’s crimes described the crimes “disgusting ve and said that he plans to conduct an investigation into his hospitals.

SPEAKER OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE DEPARTMENT Independent: “We are aware of the concerns about NMC’s dealing with this issue and we expect them to learn all the necessary lessons.”

Not being able to protect the people

It is after the last revelation Independent In January 2023, NMC announced that he could not investigate nurses accused of sexual assault and domestic violence and did not sanction.

An independent investigation directed by the former head royal prosecutor Nazir Afzal, caused by our reporting, announced in June 2023 that the regulator was influenced by a “at all levels of dysfunctional culture, which caused problems and prevented the function of the organization.

In the report, NMC said that he kullanım wrongly uses ”cases related to racism and sexual assault and could not protect the public. The examples include the closure of a case against a nurse accused of sexual harassment and rape rape because it takes place outside the work.

And in August 2024, Independent Revealed that NMC has He couldn’t move fast enough After being arrested Lucy Letby, who tries to kill seven babies and tries to kill seven people Between 2015 and 2016, due to a gap under guidance.

NMC changed its guidance in April 2024 after the review of Letby’s case, and explained that the inspectors did not have to wait until a nurse was accused of fulfilling a temporary suspension order.