Former nurse fined €3k for stealing drugs

A FORMER nurse at a Cork hospital was fined €3,000 yesterday for stealing quantities of drugs from a medical store at the hospital and forging the signatures of other medical staff in the process.

Wilson Abel, 30, of Apartment 1, Rossan, The Headlands, Wilton, Cork, pleaded guilty to 12 sample counts of theft and a further 12 sample counts of forgery.

Mary Mills, acting director of nursing at St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital in Gurranabraher, Cork, said this was an isolated incident which had shocked staff at the hospital, not least because Abel was well-regarded.