Nurse faces the axe after OAP attack
Thug threw urine-soaked trousers at cop
A NURSE is fighting to keep her job after putting a pensioner in a headlock and attacking a police officer while in the cells.
Carly Falconer battered her 75-year-old neighbour Anne Laing in the pensioner’s home in Carronshore, Falkirk, in March last year.
After she had been taken into custody, the 31-year-old removed her trousers and soaked them in a urine-filled toilet before throwing them at an on-duty officer.
She was found guilty of assault and police assault at Falkirk Sheriff Court earlier this month.
Falconer now faces being struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register.
The NMC revealed she is being investigated for past convictions but decided to hold its probe into these specific allegations in private.
Charges show Falconer is also being investigated for being “dishonest” and not giving medication to 20 patients when she should have.
Included in the 26 charges that were made public, the NMC allegations stated, “On December 2, 2018, whilst employed by the Caledonian Court Care Home”, Falconer recorded that she “had administered...medication...when you had not”.
The missing medication included antidepressant Citalopram and highly addictive opiate Tramadol.
There were also six charges of leaving mid-shift without permission from senior nurses at Newcarron Court Care
Home, where she previously worked. One charge read: “On June 4, 2018, whilst working the night shift as the only staff nurse on the Iona unit, at approximately 10.30pm, you left the unit and did not return for the remainder of your shift.
“This was contrary to the instruction you received from the senior nurse, colleague B, that you were not permitted to leave.” Earlier this month, prosecutor Heather Galbraith told Falkirk Sheriff Court how Falconer had gone to Anne’s home and began “flailing her arms and fists around”.
She was said to be drunk and grabbed Anne’s hair and pulled her around – resulting in the OAP hitting her head on a stair post.
She also put the elderly woman in a headlock, which caused her to fall over and hit her head again. The victim suffered swelling to her head, bruising to her forearms, upper arms and wrists and severe bruising to her thigh and knee.
Falconer was arrested and, once at Falkirk Police Station, lashed out at PC Courtney Craik again by biting and kicking her.
Falconer then covered the cell camera with wet tissues and threw urine-soaked trousers at a police witness when she opened the door.
Sheriff Derek Livingston put Falconer on a tag, 80 hours community service and gave the nurse a 7pm-6am curfew.
The NMC hearing continues.
This was contrary to instructions you were not allowed to leave NMC CHARGES ALLEGING FALCONER CUT SHORT SHIFTS