A WOMAN-BEATING male nurse who planned to have sex with a teenage patient was kicked out of the profession yesterday.

Former Stockton borough councillor Lee Narroway, 38, stroked the suicidal girl’s hair and kissed her while she was at the secure Westwood Centre, at the West Lane Hospital, in Middlesbrough.

He also told the 17-year-old, referred to as Patient A, to change her T-shirt in front of him and later put his hands down her trousers. Narroway switched shifts to spend time with her.

On one occasion, he said he fantasised about having sex with her in the shower room, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard.

But he was sacked after she reported him.

The NMC was told that the nurse admitted assault in February last year, after fracturing his then girlfriend’s arm, for which he was given a suspended prison sentence.

The former councillor for Ingleby Barwick was also cautioned by police for common assault on a woman at his home in 2007.

Narroway failed to inform his employer, Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust, of the caution and was suspended.

He was allowed to return to work in October 2007, but was dismissed the following year when the allegations involving Patient A emerged. Only weeks after Patient A arrived at the centre, she told nursing assistant Palkesh Darbar about Narroway’s behaviour.

Giving evidence earlier, Mr Darbar said Patient A told him Narroway stroked her hair during a night shift in February, 2008.

“She said Mr Narroway altered the observation sheet so he could stay with her for some four hours on that particular night.

“Patient A said Mr Narroway had touched her private parts and showed her his private parts.”

Mr Darbar added: “She said he had organised her observations, so he could be alone with her in her bedroom.”

The panel heard that the teenager also told Mr Darbar of a plan Narroway hatched to try to have sex with her by getting her alone in the shower room.

Narroway, of Marchlyn Crescent, Ingleby Barwick, near Stockton, denied the charges and claimed Patient A was manipulative.

But an NMC panel found him guilty of misconduct and struck him off.