'Deplorable' nurse struck off after drugging patients for 'easy life'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 'deplorable' nurse has been struck off after drugging patients for an 'easy life'. Catherine Hudson was locked up after she was found to have illegally sedated two patients while working at the Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
Hudson gave 76-year-old Aileen Scott the class C controlled drug zopiclone. Ms Scott was in hospital after suffering from a stroke, leaving her paralysed on the left side of her body.
Hudson was also convicted of illegally drugging a second patient and conspiring with a junior colleague, Charlotte Wilmot, 48, to administer a sedative to a third – with the intention of giving themselves an 'easy life' on shifts at the hospital.
Police were alerted in November 2018 by a whistleblowing student nurse. Damning messages were discovered on her phone. Hudson wrote about one of her victims in a WhatsApp message: “I sedated one of them to within an inch of her life lol.
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