Nurse struck off after man she was having secret affair with dies next to her in car
04.07.2023 - 08:07
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A nurse has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) after a man she was having a secret relationship with died while in his car with her.
A hearing was told Penelope Williams ignored advice to call an ambulance following the man’s collapse in the vehicle at Wrexham’s Spire Hospital in January 2022. The death of the man, known only as Patient A, was listed as “heart failure and chronic kidney disease triggered by a medical episode”.
A fitness to practise panel was told Patient A received regular treatment at the Betsi Cadwaladr health board, where Mrs Williams worked as a general nurse on a renal unit.
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On the night of Patient A’s death, Mrs Williams went to the home of one of her colleagues (Colleague 1) before meeting with him.
Just before midnight, the panel heard Colleague 1 received a phone call from Mrs Williams, who was “crying and distressed and asking for help as she tried to explain that someone had died”. Colleague 1 advised Mrs Williams to call an ambulance.
Upon meeting Mrs Williams in the car park of the hospital, Colleague 1 found Patient A partially clothed and unresponsive. They then called 999 and asked for the police and ambulance, which Mrs Williams had not done. Patient A was pronounced dead shortly after.
Mrs Williams initially told police and a paramedic in attendance that she had gone to the scene to meet Patient A after he messaged her on Facebook that he was unwell.
In a later statement to police, she admitted that the pair were in a sexual relationship and had previously arranged to meet at the car park that evening.
But she denied this in a formal meeting with the Health Board in