In UK, nursing lecturer stripped of his license for mocking Sikh colleague’s turban

By Online Desk

A nursing lecturer has been stripped of his nursing license for repeatedly mocking his Sikh colleague’s turban.

Maurice Slaven, a baby nursing lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, in keeping with a report, degraded his colleague’s conventional headdress as a ‘hat’ and a ‘bandage’

He harassed the colleague, a senior nursing lecturer, for over two years between October 2016 and December 2018, the NMC (Nursing and Midwifery Council) tribunal heard.

According to the Daily Mail, the offensive lecturer, who has labored at NHS hospitals throughout the nation, claimed it was ‘banter between pals’.

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Hate crimes towards the Sikhs are reported at common intervals within the US, UK, and elsewhere.

Last month, two Sikhs had been assaulted and robbed in Richmond Hill, Queens space of New York.

Earlier, an aged Sikh was attacked in the identical space.

In January, a Sikh cab driver was assaulted, on the JFK International Airport, by an unidentified man, who knocked off his turban and used expletives towards him.