A nurse has been banned from applying to be a registered practitioner again until 2029 after he was sentenced to nearly 10 years' jail for inflicting "cruel and demeaning" violence on his ex-wife during a nine-year period.
The offender's conduct, between 2011 and 2020 when he was a registered nurse, included using a knife to slice the victim's forehead while making her watch an explicit video, injecting her with a substance she believed to be methamphetamine, and choking her unconscious.
Other despicable acts included him slamming her head into a wall, kicking her while forcing her to sleep in a garage "like the dog", and forcing her to shave her head to "make her so ugly no one would want her".
