A nurse has been struck off after manhandling a handicapped patient at a Billericay care home.

Mahammed Jeerooburkhan grabbed the autistic and epileptic man by his neck and locked him in his room, a disciplinary hearing at the Nursing and Midwifery Council was told.

The incident, at the home in Heath Close in June 2001, occurred after the patient unplugged the communal television.

Published Friday, June 27, 2003

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