Scientist keeps career after girlfriend abuse

A hospital scientist who trapped his girlfriend in an empty staff room and called her a ‘f****** lying c***’ for not answering his texts was allowed to keep his job. John Shakes also brought a 15cm flick knife to work while based at the Maidstone Hospital in Kent. The pair had met eight months earlier while working in the same department at the hospital and started a romantic relationship. The woman, referred to as Colleague A, was shifting as a…