A nurse who showed an indecent video of a child to a colleague while working at a Chester hospital has been struck off.

Previously we reported Ebob Apana Agey, 53, was working in the Willow Ward at Bowmere Hospital at the Countess of Chester Health Park when she showed a colleague the indecent video on February 18, 2022.

Agey had accepted the indecent video, which showed a girl aged about six years old involved in a sex act on an adult male, was on her phone.

She had claimed she had not seen the video, which had also been forwarded to her husband a few days earlier, until shortly before showing it to the male colleague, and claimed she was disgusted by it.

But a jury at Chester Crown Court found her guilty following a trial in January this year, on both charges of distributing an indecent video and showing an indecent video.

Agey, of Rushwood Close, Walsall, was handed a two-year prison sentence, suspended for two years, by judge Eric Lamb, and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years. She was ordered to carry out a 25-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

Judge Lamb, in his sentencing remarks, said: "‘Having received the video unbidden from some contact in Cameroon on February 15, 2022, [the defendant] decided to forward it to [a person], with the logo 'See wickedness'. And three days later, when on duty with [the colleague, she] showed that colleague the offensive material, saying to him afterwards '...she’s only doing it for a happy meal'."

A meeting of the Nursing and Midwifery Council has since taken place to determine whether Agey was still fit to practise.

The panel said Agey had "displayed limited insight" into the offence, seeking "to minimise and excuse her conduct", but accepted she had undertaken relevant training including Level 3 Safeguarding Adults and Level 3 Safeguarding Children.

The offence had been " an isolated instance of serious misjudgment on two occasions concerning the same material," and Agey "did not seek sexual gratification by the distribution or showing of the offensive material".

Agey had continued to work as a nurse, away from Chester, and the panel said there was "a continuing risk to the public" due to the nurse's "lack of full insight".

The panel committee said the nurse had "acted in a way which damages the trust the public places in nurses" and concluded her actions "fell far below the standards expected of a registered nurse".

A striking-off order was considered "necessary to mark the importance of maintaining public confidence in the profession, and to send to the public and the profession a clear message about the standard of behaviour required of a registered nurse".

An interim suspension order for Agey is in place until the 28-day window for a potential appeal ends. If no appeal is made, the interim suspension order will be replaced by the striking-off order.