Identified in court proceedings as Kudabo, the staff member was said to have kissed a patient in what his legal representative described as a misguided attempt at offering comfort.
His barrister, Sodipe, told the court, “He has held up his hands to say, yes he is guilty – he shouldn’t have done that. He accepts his actions were inappropriate and unacceptable.”
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The court heard that Kudabo, who had relocated from Nigeria to the UK with his family for work, was “moved to sympathy” by the patient’s suffering and wrongly assumed that physical affection would ease the situation.
