Stabbing nurse is struck off

A casualty nurse who was spared jail after stabbing her abusive boyfriend with a steak-knife has been kicked out of the profession. Victoria McCool, 40, attacked David Cox, 50, during a row at their home in the Devon village of Silverton in April last year. She was given a 15-month suspended sentence after Judge Geoffrey Mercer QC heard she had suffered more than a year of physical and verbal abuse. McCool was hauled back to court days later after she…