Mental health nurse struck off for lewd comments

A NURSE who made lewd comments about the size of his manhood to mentally ill sexual abuse victims has been kicked out of the profession.

Mahadeo Roghoo, who was in charge of Mexborough’s Aspen House mental health unit at the time, quipped in front of two female patients that he had a £5 note tattooed on his penis which “becomes £50” when he is aroused.

An industry disciplinary panel heard Roghoo said he was thinking of “women with big breasts” after asking a colleague to say “watermelons” in Polish.

At an earlier hearing, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel had found Roghoo guilty of making a string of inappropriate comments in front of patients and staff between March 2008 and November 2013.

He also taunted a mentally ill patient who thought she was pregnant with a pair of crisp packets and sandwiches, saying: “One for you and one for the baby” and woke her up by banging on a wall close to where she was snoozing in a chair.

The Maritius-born nurse, who has worked in the UK since 1992, was spared a ban from nursing two years ago because a panel which opted instead for conditions of practise said the incidents arose from his misguided sense of humour.

But this week an NMC panel the panel ruled he should now be struck off after noting he had not offered “any evidence of insight or remediation of his behaviour”.

The panel ruled: “His actions were also an abuse of a position of trust in an environment which housed patients who could quite properly be described as extremely vulnerable to the very conduct to which he exposed them.”