The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), which regulates the register of nurses able to practise in the UK, published a judgment from a disciplinary hearing which concluded Ewan would remain a potential risk to patients if he was not struck off.Īn independent panel concluded: 'Children suffer harm as a result of indecent images being made, possessed and distributed.
The former Aintree Hospital nurse has also now been officially prohibited from practising nursing in the UK. His defence lawyer told the court Ewan's interest in adult porn was in the 45-year-old's words 'thrill seeking' and progressed to viewing child sex abuse images.Įwan's computer had 137 Category A images, including 10 videos which are seen as the most extreme forms of abuse and involve children being raped.Īlong with the suspended sentence he was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register and comply with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years. His innocent wife and children were forced to flee the family home in Netherton, Merseyside after it was targeted by vigilantes who vandalised it.Įwan's wife has since left him and he has 'lost' his children, a court heard. A paedophile nurse who downloaded baby rape images was struck off but the married father-of-four has avoided jail.Ĭhristopher Ewan, 45, who used to work in A&E, downloaded more than 100 child rape files, plus extreme porn images showing bestiality.
