A FORMER nurse at a Pwllheli care home has been struck off after a disciplinary hearing found that he had kissed a resident’s neck and asked her to marry him.

David Lloyd Hughes, who was working at Penrhos Home as a staff nurse at the time, was also found to have made sexually and racially motivated comments in 2015 and shouted at one resident “your mother is a whore”.

A Nursing and Midwifery Council hearing found a string of charges against Hughes proven and struck him off the nursing register saying that he “abused his position of power and trust” causing “emotional harm and distress to four vulnerable residents” in incidents dating back to 2015.

The panel heard that a senior care assistant had reported Hughes for kissing the neck of one of the residents and asking her to marry him.

Hughes claimed he had kissed the female resident to comfort her and asked her to marry him as “banter”, but the panel found that the behaviour was sexually motivated.

Hughes was also accused of shouting aggressively at a 90-year-old resident and pointing his finger at him before saying something like “your mother is a whore” in response to the resident saying the Polish word for ‘whore’.

While Hughes had said he hadn’t shouted at the man, pointed his finger at him deliberately or called the man’s mother a “whore”, the panel found all charges proven.

Despite Hughes saying that he did not intend to return to nursing after losing his job at the home, the panel ruled that only a striking-off order was appropriate.

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