Nurse banned from profession after being jailed for child sex offences
The panel said David Barrett - who could reoffend - would be a risk to adults and children if he continued working
Last updated 25th Aug 2023
A Worcestershire nurse has been banned from the profession after being convicted of voyeurism and child sexual offences.
David Barrett, 43 and of Evesham, was jailed for 33 months for his crimes – which included filming teenagers having sex.
At a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise Committee, which decided to strike-off the former nurse who specialised in adult care, they said he was at risk of reoffending.
The panel’s report said it was likely Barrett had “harmful, deep-seated personality or attitudinal problems” and his offending was “extremely serious”.
He told the panel: “I have brought disrepute and shame to my profession. I have lost the public trust. I am very sorry.”
The panel found that adults and children would be at risk if he was allowed to continue nursing, adding: “Mr Barrett’s conduct and convictions had breached the fundamental tenets of the nursing profession and therefore brought its reputation into disrepute.
“It was satisfied that confidence in the nursing profession would be undermined if its regulator did not find charges relating to such criminal offending extremely serious.
“It determined that the charges and conviction were high up on the spectrum of seriousness.”
The crimes were committed between 2006 and 2017 and he became a registered nurse in 2016.
But the panel said he had not worked since his convictions in 2021 and 2022.
The panel also said in its report after the hearing on 15 and 16 August: “The convictions, by their very nature, involve sexual misconduct involving the most vulnerable members of society, children.
“Allowing continued registration would not only place the public at a risk of harm but it would be seriously damaging to the reputation of the profession.”