{UAH} Dartford nurse loses appeal after being sacked for misconduct

Ikanos,

Do remember this case of the bible bashing nurse Kuteh who was dismissed from her job for asking her patients, many of them suffering from terminal conditions, and left with only days to die,  to pray to God.. I posted her case here.  Her conduct was deemed to be gross misconduct by her employer and she was summarily dismissed. She has since been engaged in a brutal legal war with the National Health Service, reaching as far as the Court of Appeal, which has today dismissed her appeal. She is now taking her case to the last court of the land, the Supreme Court, for a final decision. Ms Kuteh claims she is a victim of religious discrimination and is supported by a huge lobby of  churches and religious fundamentalists - she has in fact become a heroine.

Bobby

Dartford nurse loses appeal after being sacked for misconduct

By Conor ShieldsReporter - Bexley & Dartford

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A Bible-bashing nurse who told a cancer patient that he needed to pray for a "better chance of survival" has lost her appeal following claims she was unfairly dismissed.

The claimant, named as Ms Kuteh in court documents, was axed from her duties as a Junior Sister with the Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust in June 2016 pending investigation after a number of complaints were lodged against her by concerned patients she had attended where she had engaged in conversations surrounding religion.

Among these complaints, it was claimed that Ms Kuteh had approached a patient who was about to undergo major bowel surgery for cancer and told him that "if he prayed to God, he would have a better chance of survival", according to court records.

The records also show that another cancer patient complained that Ms Kuteh had told him that "the only way he could get to the Lord was through Jesus", describing the encounter as "very bizarre" and "like a Monty Python skit".

After appealing against the decision to let her go, Ms Kuteh brought her claim to the Employment Tribunal on December 1, 2016, on the grounds that she had been unfairly dismissed.

However, her claim was quickly thrown out as it was concluded that the Trust's decision to dismiss Ms Kuteh from her duties was fair and within reason.

Ms Kuteh appealed against that decision to the Employment Appeals Tribunal on May 12, 2017 but to no avail.

This decision has since been appealed with three judges all agreeing that there is no basis to allow it to go further.

Speaking on the most recent appeal decision, Lord Justice Singh agreed that the Trust conducted a fair procedure and that the ET's conclusion that the decision to dismiss Ms Kuteh for misconduct was reasonable.

Along with Lord Justice Haddon-Cave and Lord Justice Gross, it was agreed that this further appeal should be dismissed also.

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