Male nurse asked teenage hospital cleaner, 17, to sleep with him because his pregnant wife couldn't

Noah Kantoh was handed three-year caution order by Nursing and Midwifery Council

Council found insufficient evidence to support string of other charges

17-year-old cleaner had made it clear to Kantoh that his comments ‘disgusted’ her

But defence witness says girl had told him she had been ‘bullied’ into reporting nurse

                                                                         Insufficient evidence: Noah Kantoh, 35, had also been accused of a string of charges against the teenager including trying to kiss her, groping her breasts and accusing her of spurning his advances because he was black

A male nurse who asked a teenage colleague to 'fill in' for his pregnant wife while he could not sleep with her has been allowed to carry on working.

Noah Kantoh, 35, made the sexually motivated comment to the 17-year-old cleaner while working with her at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent.

He had been accused of a string of charges against her, including trying to kiss her, groping her breasts and accusing her of spurning his advances because he was black.

But a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found there was insufficient evidence to support the bulk of the charges against him.

However, the Council found Kantoh's lone remark - ‘You can fill in the three-month gap as I can’t sleep with my wife’ - amounted to misconduct and that his fitness to practise was impaired.

Imposing a three-year caution order, panel chair Laurence Peterken said: ‘The panel accepts this was an isolated incident involving a colleague and patient safety was not compromised.

‘The panel accepts that your conduct, albeit serious, is on the lower end of the spectrum of sexually motivated conduct.

‘Although you have shown insight, you have not shown full insight and there was no admission to any of the facts proved.’

He added that in directing the caution, the panel wanted to make clear that Kantoh’s behaviour was ‘unacceptable and must not be repeated again’.

A further charge relating to a clinical error while dispensing medication was also found proved, but the panel ruled it did not amount to misconduct.

The cleaner, now in her early 20s, said she had made it clear to Kantoh that she was not interested and that his comments, made between October 2007 and October 2008, ‘disgusted’ her.

Work place: Kantoh made the sexually motivated comment to the cleaner while working with her at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham, Kent.

But defence witness Peterkin Ofori, who worked with the pair at the hospital, said they knew one another well and were on ‘friendly’ terms.

He said the girl had told him she had been ‘bullied’ into reporting Kantoh, but would not confirm by whom.

‘I called her straight away to find out had happened. I was shocked,’ he explained.

‘She then told me she was bullied to make the allegation. I said by who but she would not say. She did not want to talk about it.’

Mr Ofori also confessed to having an affair with the girl in June 2008 and said he had heard rumours that there had been other relationships as well.

If this had been a white Nurse asking a 17 year girl to sleep with him, he would have been struck off right away. I am sick to the back teeth of blacks getting away with everything. How could they let him go back to work, and how is the girl going to feel when she see's him again, it makes my blood boil.