A 42-YEAR-OLD plans to appeal against a decision to ban him from nursing for forcing a paranoid schizophrenic to eat his own excrement and is determined to rejoin the profession.

Mental health nurse Abraham Olaniyan was struck off following a hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in February.

The council upheld allegations that Mr Olaniyan threatened to make a patient eat his own faeces and forced him to eat it while working at Blackheath’s Cygnet Wing secure psychiatric unit in 2004.

Mr Olaniyan, a registered nurse since 1997, always denied the allegations, claiming another nurse was responsible and he had been framed.

But his claim of a conspiracy was rejected by the council.

The former Brockley-resident travelled down from Manchester, where he now lives, to speak exclusively to News Shopper.

He said: “There’s no way I can show any remorse because I didn’t do it. I didn’t even see any faeces.

“I don’t have any bad feelings about it. I just have to move on with my life.

The council was told that Olaniyan had told the patient “eat your crap” after he defecated in the corridor at the unit. He then took the patient into a shower and forced the excrement into his mouth.

At the hearing, its chairman Stephen Barker described the case as “a deliberate and unprovoked assault on a patient”.

The incident was not witnessed by anybody else and the hearing was told the patient could not clearly remember it.

Mr Olaniyan said: “If I’d done something wrong the police would have arrested me at the time and they’d have charged me. They said there was insufficient evidence.

“I’m looking into going to court to appeal but I have to look into the legal costs.”

He also claims that disciplinary procedures meant that during his hearing he was unable to call or cross-examine all the witnesses he wanted to.

The father-of-two said: “Now I want all nurses to be aware of their disciplinary procedures and get their union involved.

“This is something for them to learn from.”

Mr Olaniyan continued to work as an agency nurse right up until the first hearing last August when his licence was suspended and says he intends to return to nursing once his five-year ban ends.

He is currently working with anti-social behaviour offenders.