A senior nursing lecturer has been struck off after he mocked his Sikh colleague for wearing a turban by asking 'where's your hat?' Maurice Slaven repeatedly racially harassed his co-worker over his turban, referring to it as a 'hat' and a 'bandage'.
Even when the university lecturer's offended colleague pointed out it was a turban, bully Slaven hit back 'no, it's a hat'. Slaven, a former child nursing lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambs, also referred to Sikhs as 'you lot', mocked the religion's founder Guru Nanak, and made insensitive comments about Sikhs using 'swords'.
Now, following a Nursing and Midwifery Council [NMC] tribunal, Slaven has been stripped of his nursing licence following a 22-year-career. Cambridge-based Slaven is understood to have spent 15 years in the Royal Air Force before qualifying as a children's nurse in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1997.
