‘I hate having to say no’: Nurse’s secret affair with prisoner

His code title for her was “Ms X” and he or she referred to as him “lovely” and “beautiful” and informed him: “I really like you and I miss you a lot, I received you and I really like us madly and badly to items”.

However it wasn’t a typical love story as a result of he was a prisoner and he or she was his psychological well being nurse.

Now she has been suspended and referred by the Well being and Incapacity Commissioner to a course of that might lead to her being struck off the register of nurses.

The jail nurse was caught having a forbidden sexual relationship with the prisoner she was counselling after the person was caught with contraband and jail employees started monitoring his telephone calls in mid-2021.

When the inappropriate relationship was found employees reviewed video footage of a session that confirmed the pair went off digicam to a room behind a glass door the place the prisoner might be seen mendacity on high of the nurse for about 90 seconds.

Additionally they had telephone intercourse and on one event the person informed the nurse to “take your knickers off”, they usually reminisced about earlier sexual encounters together with in a grocery store automobile park the place they have been “apparently witnessed by a trolley pusher”.

Deputy Well being and Incapacity Commissioner Dr Vanessa Caldwell’s report, launched at present, mentioned one of many telephone conversations included the person saying: “Can’t wait to come back dwelling and have cooking”.

Ms X responded: “If the meals ever will get made”. Mr B, because the prisoner was recognized, mentioned “interrupting” Ms X whereas cooking and mentioned: “It’s all in regards to the timing with the cooking and the lovemaking”.

Ms X responded: “Heaven”.

It was unclear within the report how the prisoner was in a position to be in a grocery store automobile park and an HDC spokeswoman confirmed the connection didn’t begin previous to the person being jailed.

The lovers had nicknames for one another together with “my darling” and “my child” and the telephone calls, typically extraordinarily graphic and sexually express in nature, came about as much as thrice a day.

They have been recorded by the Jail Phone Monitoring System. In a single name in August 2021 Mr B and Ms X declared their love for one another.

Mr B mentioned: “Please have a protected drive again. I really like you. I miss you. I received you and I really like us madly and badly to f***** items”.

The telephone name ended with Ms X saying: “Goodnight my darling, at all times in my coronary heart, at all times in my thoughts. I’m at all times there for you lovely, I really like you.”

As soon as the nurse was late to work as a result of the pair have been having telephone intercourse.

Within the name that turned out to be their final on September 30, 2021, Mr B informed the nurse to take away her knickers.

She responded: “I can’t, I’ve to go in, I’m sorry. I hate having to say no, you understand that”, after which she giggled.

It was the identical day the prisoner and registered nurse, recognized as RN A, have been videoed leaving the jail interview room to an space not utterly seen to the room’s digicam.

“HDC has considered this footage, which reveals, by way of a glass door panel, RN A mendacity on the bottom, dealing with upward, and Mr B mendacity on high of her,” Caldwell mentioned in her investigation report.

“They look like on this place for about one minute and 30 seconds earlier than they each stand up to their ft.”

The nurse was confronted by the jail director in regards to the video footage of her partaking in bodily contact with Mr B, with the director asking RN A if she “had been received”.

The phrase was a jail time period that referred to when an individual was manipulated by a prisoner into doing one thing unprofessional or unlawful that they didn’t wish to, that breached the Code of Conduct.

Nevertheless, the nurse didn’t reply to the allegations besides to say in her resignation to the Main Well being Organisation she labored for: “I sincerely apologise for the tough state of affairs I depart behind”.

She emailed a closing message to the prisoner.

“Hello my darling, I don’t even know if you’ll get this. I don’t know what’s going on for you there I simply hope you might be okay and that nothing unhealthy has occurred to you. I don’t know what you understand about what occurred for me, hopefully somebody has talked to you”.

“Hell I don’t even know if I’ll ever hear from you once more. Practice wreck eh! … Be protected my darling and I hope I hear from you in the future. If I don’t, nicely I nonetheless wouldn’t change a factor. xx”.

In whole the nurse carried out 105 classes with the prisoner over two years from October 2019.

Caldwell mentioned the nurse’s relationship with Mr B breached basic moral requirements due to the facility imbalance between clinician and affected person.

“I don’t contemplate that such a relationship being consensual alters this reality. This energy imbalance will at all times imply there’s the potential for abuse of the nurse’s skilled place and hurt to the well being client.”

She referred RN A to the Director of Proceedings to determine whether or not disciplinary fees can be laid. In that case, the case can be heard by the Well being Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal.

Caldwell didn’t discover the PHO in breach of the Code of Well being and Incapacity Companies Customers’ Rights.