‘I was helping him’ says ‘Jabba the Hut’ nurse

A nurse who branded a clinically obese patient ‘Jabba the Hut’ and told him he was ‘too fat’ claimed she was just trying to help him lose weight. Alison Tezoo allegedly refused to let the elderly man in his 70s eat fish and chips for dinner at the Moat House nursing home in Essex. She failed to intervene when another resident coughed uncontrollably, telling them it was because they were ‘eating like a pig’. Tezoo also allegedly referred to a…