A nurse has been struck off the register after filming people through a hole in the cubicle wall in an Asda toilet.
Pheddie Delos Reyes, 29, had been a registered nurse since 2019, but was convicted of two counts of voyeurism and one count of making an indecent image of a child.
Wiltshire Police were called on July 18, 2023, after a customer at an Asda in Swindon reported he had been filmed while urinating.
A Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) tribunal panel judgment heard officers arrested Delos Reyes and informed his workplace at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
CCTV from Asda showed Delos Reyes arrived at the store at about 6 pm and headed straight to the men’s toilets, where he remained for nearly three hours, the panel said.
The footage recorded around fifty males, including adults and children, going into the toilets over that time, where the urinals were out of order and only one cubicle, the one not occupied by Delos Reyes, was available.
Officers seized his devices and found several videos on his phones showing men urinating in the toilet, filmed through a hole in the wall.
Delos Reyes was charged with and pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism and one count of making an indecent image of a child, at two separate court appearances at Swindon Magistrates’ Court.
He was sentenced in June last year to a suspended jail term, but an NMC panel has now found that his fitness to practise was impaired, deciding the public would be ‘shocked’ if they did not make the finding, given the severity of the convictions.
The panel added that he had indicated ‘some remorse’ but he had a ‘limited understanding’ of the impact of his offending.
‘The conduct, as highlighted by the facts found proved, was a significant departure from the standards expected of a registered nurse,’ they said.
‘The panel determined that the serious breach of the fundamental tenets of the profession evidenced by Mr Delos Reyes’s actions is fundamentally incompatible with Mr Delos Reyes remaining on the register.’
They imposed an interim suspension order against Delos Reyes for 18 months to cover a potential appeal period.
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