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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Hennessey

Nurse ‘gave colleague scissors to defend herself against any Muslims’, tribunal told

The panel found that on August 4 2024, Ms Ellams asked staff to lock the care home’s windows and doors in case ‘a Muslim’ got in - (PA Archive)

A nurse handed a colleague nail scissors to defend herself against a feared attack by Muslims days after the Southport stabbings, a nursing tribunal has found.

Belinda Ellams, an agency nurse, was working at Millbrow Care Home in Cheshire, when she made comments such as Muslims are going to “kill all white people” and “we need to be ready for the Muslims”, according to a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise panel.

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