BLACKHEATH: Nurse forced patient to eat excrement (From News Shopper)

BLACKHEATH: Nurse forced patient to eat excrement

5:10pm Monday 8th February 2010

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A NURSE has been found to have forced a paranoid schizophrenic to eat his own excrement.

This afternoon the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) decided the allegations that Abraham Olaniyan had threatened to make a patient eat his own faeces and forced him to eat it were proven.

Stephen Barker, chairing the NMC hearing, said: “The panel finds the NMC has proved both charges.”

Tomorrow the panel will tell 45-year-old Olaniyan, from Brockley, whether he will be struck off the nursing register.

The incident took place at the Cygnet Wing secure psychiatric unit in Blackheath on July 16, 2004.

This morning the panel heard the patient had defecated in a corridor at the unit and was told to “eat your crap” by Olaniyan.

Olaniyan then took the patient, known as Patient A, into a shower room and forced excrement into his mouth, the panel heard.

However, Olaniyan denied the accusations, and the incident was not witnessed by anybody else.

When Patient A gave evidence to the hearing in August last year he said he could not remember the incident clearly nor say who was responsible for the attack.

Two of Olaniyan's colleagues, Enock Mhindurwa and Frederick Matenga, reported the incident.

However, Olaniyan claimed it was Mr Mhindurwa who committed the offences against Patient A.

Olaniyan said Mr Mhindurwa and Mr Matenga conspired to frame him because of previous disagreements between him and them.

Tim Nesbitt, representing Olaniyan, said the statements given to the hearing by Mr Mhindurwa and Mr Matenga were “adversarial evidence”.

He said: “All of this evidence you have here comes out of this antagonistic relationship.

“This is not evidence that had been given in a neutral way.”

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