Man who stole identity to pose as nurse jailed
Cheshire ConstabularyA man who stole an identity to pretend to be a registered nurse has been jailed for for more than three years.
Ashton Guramatunhu, 46, registered with a nursing agency in Warrington in 2014, using the identity of a genuine nurse, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Guramatunhu, from Bobeche Place in Kingswinford, near Dudley, went on to work at six nursing homes in the north east of England, Cheshire Constabulary said.
Det Con Naomi Sargent, who led the investigation, said the defendant, who was jailed for a total of 40 months, had "put the lives of innocent patients at risk, purely for his own financial gain".
Guramatunhu pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by false representation at an earlier hearing and was sentenced on Tuesday.
Police said he had been caught in 2019 when the nurse he was impersonating contacted the Nursing and Midwifery Council over a "fitness to practice" hearing that was nothing to do with him.
Following the sentencing, Det Con Sargent said: "Guramatunhu should never have been working as a nurse."
She said she had "no doubt that he would have continued his offending had he not been arrested".
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