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Fake nurse, 46, who fraudulently pocketed more than £170,000 jailed

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By Sky News - 03.12.2025 - [Ashton Guramatunhu] - [ENGLAND]

A man who posed as a registered nurse, earning more than £170,000 from his fraudulent activity, has been jailed for more than three years.

Ashton Guramatunhu appeared at Liverpool Crown Court on Tuesday, where he was sentenced to 40 months in prison.


Guramatunhu, 46, of Middlepark Road, Dudley, had pleaded guilty to one count of fraud by false representation at an earlier hearing.

The court heard how in late 2014, Guramatunhu registered with a nursing agency in Warrington using the identity of a registered nurse to gain employment.

He went on to work at six nursing homes in the northeast of England between 1 January 2015 and 5 April 2019, earning an estimated £172,921 through his fraudulent activity, Cheshire Police said.


In January 2019, the nurse whose identity had been used by Guramatunhu was contacted by the Nursing and Midwifery Council concerning an incident, and his fitness to practice, at a care home he had never worked at.

The incident was reported to Cleveland Police, and an investigation was launched. The case was passed to Cheshire Police in 2020 after it was established that Guramatunhu was registered to an agency in Warrington.


Following the sentencing, Detective Constable Naomi Sargent, who led the investigation, said: "Guramatunhu should never have been working as a nurse. While he had been to university, his previous convictions meant that he was not suitable to work in the care sector.

"He put the lives of innocent patients at risk, purely for his own financial gain, and I have no doubt that he would have continued his offending had he not been arrested.

"The sentence handed to him by the court reflects the severity of his actions, and I hope that it acts as a warning to others."

If you have been affected by any of the issues raised in this article and were abused in state run medical and health facilities, you can contact Dignity4Patients, whose helpline is open Monday to Thursday, 10am to 4pm.

Dignity4Patients Commentary: The fact that someone could be employed in healthcare without proper verification is deeply troubling. How can patients place their trust in a system when the regulatory bodies mandated to register and monitor healthcare staff apparently lack the safeguards to always ensure that those they certify are properly vetted? The case of a man posing fraudulently as a nurse starkly illustrates the dangerous weaknesses in oversight. That such failures remain possible is evidence of alarming gaps in regulatory healthcare bodies and their systems.

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