Romanian nurse hit man in a wheelchair

A Romanian nurse who assaulted a wheelchair-bound dementia patient told a colleague: ‘He hit me first,’ a tribunal heard. Paul Teglas, who was working as a Health Care Assistant at the Lauriston Care Home in East Sussex, slapped a vulnerable patient across the thigh on 5 November 2017. He refused to turn up to his disciplinary tribunal unless an interpreter was supplied for him even though he had been working as a nurse in the UK for several years. The…