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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Rebecca Thomas

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

John Iwuh was jailed in July for 16 years for rape and voyeurism - (Metropolitan Police)

A rapist nurse was able to work freely for more than a year while under investigation because the UK’s scandal-hit nursing regulator failed to suspend him when police made officials aware of the allegations against him, The Independent can reveal.

John Chukwunonso Iwuh, 54, of South Norwood, Croydon, used his job as a psychiatric nurse to gain the trust of his victim, whom he had met on a dating app, before luring her to his home and raping her after she rejected his advances in June 2022.

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