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nurse who punched a teenager “Instnct? Against a vulnerable
e e lie ea in . so hard in the face he broke teenager with learning
asse o aton las his teeth and his jaw. disabilites and autsm?”
week e contnue That nurse who, trained in Gone was the
e ci e l . ell one sai restraint, showed none. Wife joined me in apoplexy. buoyant dreamer and
ea el . save ui Him? Banned for life I hope”. Yet more legitmised violence schemer of this morning;
al ea e sai . illian in health and social care? he looked crushed and
sai . Wife and I were globally vexed. crestallen. “I am gonna lose
“When I got to
my job,” he blurted out, near
Men with huge power over
One rent deposit, a home of bread and started others re-branding their to tears. Turns out customer
his own, three datng sites, flling the shelves I …” heinous crimes ‘instnct’, and his mate, sixth formers
and a honeymoon in Florida Rex hesitated. like they cannot help from a local school,
later, Rex’s dreams for leaving “I whacked one of themselves, like it’s natural, were baitng Rex all the way
home sounded like mine at his ’em round the head like they have no choice. up beers, wines and spirits.
age. Admitedly, his plans did with a bag of Weinstein and his vile rape “They called me a mong,” he
not include ‘lozzucking around burger buns.” instnct, faking helplessness. said. “They called me a spazz.”
waitng for the unlikely rise of Trump flmed boastng serial
a Socialist Republic’ but stll ... sexual assault, defended as “When I got to bread and
Rex prodded me with his locker-room talk. As if these started flling the shelves I …”
rolled up newspaper. “Read it. Wife shook her head. are the unrestrainable Rex hesitated, “I whacked one
Back page. Anthony Joshua. “The entry in the Nursing and instncts of men, bearing no of ’em round the head with a
Body achieves what the mind Midwifery Council’s register for resemblance to the men bag of burger buns when he
believes. That’s what he says”. Maxwell Nyamukapa (1) we know and respect. called my Mum a retard,”
has a big green tck of Instnct – a fashionable he said, shamefaced. Wife
Rex loves boxing. So do I. approval against it, followed by defence of the indefensible. gave him a big, long hug.
Joshua is his hero. ‘Registered – no restrictons on
practce’. He is free to practse I calmed down, unrolled Rex’s I read his suspension leter.
Just about to setle down for and to punch again”. newspaper, glanced at the back “I’ll accompany you to the
a cup of tea and a read when page, saw Anthony Joshua with hearing if you like,” I ofered.
wife arrives home, pale and I could not compute wife’s his arms and fsts up, gloved, “Do you think I’ll be sacked”?
perplexed. ”You’ll never guess explanaton. It contained defending himself legitmately. asked Rex, stll desolate.
the outcome of that ft to all the wrong words: I rolled it back up again
practse hearing for the no case to answer, act of furiously and spent 20 minutes “What would Anthony Joshua
learning disability nurse”. I put self-defence, instnctve. defending boxing, its discipline, say”? I asked, trying to
the milk back in the fridge “Instnctve you say”? its relatve care of the human. comfort him. “The body
and picked up Rex’s I asked as it dawned, my anger achieves … no, in this case the
“Did you know that in boxing mind achieves what the mind
o ecton there are 21 fouls for which a believes. Let’s believe that
boxer can be penalised or you won’t be sacked, and you
n our last issue (31 [1] l Staf could beneft from disqualifed”? I said, fuming. won’t be sacked”.
I p.22-23) the research artcle beter training around “In a sport that is all about
by Dr Claire Bates on staf relatonships to help them whacking people, nowhere IT WAS A GLOVED HAND
overcoming barriers in provide good support does it say that the instnct Rex went home to tell his
intmate relatonships was to people of self-defence mitgates any Mum. “Well, technically, it was
printed with the wrong key of those 21 fouls,” I added, a gloved hand,” I said to wife
messages. We apologise for l People with learning whacking the fridge door with and we smiled, wryly, about
this error. The correct key disabilites should be my rolled-up newspaper so the burger buns. “What’s the
messages are: beter informed of their hard, an Eifel Tower fridge line of defence going to be
rights in this area to magnet catapulted in wife’s Frank? Wife asked. “Oh, that’s
l People should be treated know when they are directon, decapitatng her easy,” I said .“There are
as adults in regards to being restricted and feel cup cake. professional role models for
relatonships and their confdent to raise that,” I declared. “Instnct.
rights respected – concerns if they I was just wiping vanilla cream His defence will be instnct”.
unnecessary restrictons are not being and entrails of cherry of the
should not be placed supported correctly. foor tles when the front door 1. Maxwell Nyamukapa was a
upon relatonships i o bell went. Wife answered it and nurse at Winterbourne View
ushered Rex into the kitchen. Hospital. (See News opposite)

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