Taking a chance on love

A nurse who slept with a homeless teenager and claimed he ‘took the risk for love but it backfired’ has been thrown out of the profession. Rodney Lowther-Harris took the 19-year-old girl back to his home for sex while she was under his care at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield. The suicidal patient had been admitted to the hospital after problems with drugs, depression, and self-harming, the Nursing and Midwifery Council heard. After sleeping with the girl Lowther-Harris wrote in…