A DEDICATED member of staff a specialist hospital for people with mental health and personality disorders has said she no longer wants to work there after a patient tried to attack her with a screwdriver.
Bushrah Suleman, 28, is now considered so dangerous by the staff at Stockton Hall Hospital, Stockton on the Forest, North Yorkshire, that she is to be moved to Rampton maximum secure psychiatric hospital in Nottinghamshire, where patients have included Soham murderer Ian Huntley and killer nurse Beverly Allitt.
York Crown Court heard Suleman, who pleaded guilty to attempted wounding, had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act at the hospital run by Partnerships in Care Limited when she armed herself with a screwdriver and tried to attack a health worker in the hospital on January 18.
“She has been so traumatised as a result by what you were intending to do to her, she feels unable to work at that place that she loves so much,” Judge Paul Batty QC told the defendant, who was surrounded by four staff from the hospital in the secure dock for the hearing.
“I am pleased to hear a bed will be made available for you at the maximum secure hospital at Rampton.”
The Honorary Recorder of York added a condition that she should only be released when the Justice Secretary was satisfied she is no longer a danger to the public.
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