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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helena Vesty

Mental health nurse demanded colleague 'speak English properly' and mimicked accent during 'racist' tirade

A nurse for Greater Manchester’s troubled mental health trust has been stricken off after going on a ‘racist’ tirade.

Neill Antony Gold was named in a report from a misconduct hearing, held and published by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The hearing heard how Mr Gold had called a colleague ‘a foreign c***’, mimicking their pronunciation of a ward name, and demanding they ‘speak English properly’ over the course of the rant.

Neill Gold was a nurse at the Edenfield Centre, a troubled inpatient facility run by Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust (GMMH). The centre was exposed in an explosive Panorama programme last year, which featured allegations of staff abusing vulnerable, mentally ill patients.

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