Nurse stood by as guard choked deportation detainee

A nurse who stood by as a guard choked a suicidal deportation detainee and then tried to cover it up has been struck off. Joanne Buss was working in the Brook House immigration removal centre at Gatwick Airport, whose abuse of detainees was exposed in a Panorama investigation in 2017. When called to the cells of a detainee who was choking himself, Buss referred to the distressed man as an ‘arse’. But the person she made the comment to was…