IPSWICH NURSE BANNED FOR VIEWING CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
A mental health nurse who viewed child abuse images has been banned from his profession.Anand Chinnathamby, of Ancaster Road, Ipswich, was deputy ward manager at a unit for vulnerable adults in Essex.
His home was raided by the National Crime Agency after he uploaded 10 indecent images of children to his Gmail account in April 2022.
A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) panel determined his fitness to practice was impaired and issued a striking off order.
Chinnathamby, who first registered as a nurse in 2006, received an eight-month suspended prison sentence at Ipswich Crown Court in May 2024 after admitting three counts of making indecent images of children.
He lost his job due to the offence and was banned from returning by the NMC panel, which noted he showed no remorse or insight into how his actions put patients at risk.
The panel concluded, 'Chinnathamby's actions in making indecent photographs of children are fundamentally incompatible with registration as a nurse.' The NCA was first alerted about Chinnathamby after he was reported to the US National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
When his phone was seized, officers found file paths for over 100 indecent images of children that had been previously saved.
Evidence also proved he controlled the offending account and named the email after a ward he previously worked on, the NCA said.
