A NURSE who accepted £67,000 from a schizophrenic patient has been struck off the medical register.

Theresa Thorp (66) was responsible for monitoring the vulnerable and elderly woman’s life in Jersey for almost eight years, but accepted gifts of large amounts of money between 1994 and 1999.

She was appointed to care for the patient in 1991 by the Jersey Health Service and made regular weekly visits.

Helen Kitchen, of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in London, said at yesterday’s hearing: ‘Patient A was a highly vulnerable patient.

She was suffering from schizophrenia.

Negativity was her main problem, which could lead to a lack of motivation.

She was also socially withdrawn.

‘On one occasion, in about 1981, she reported that her ”voices” were threatening to give her money to charity.

Patient A was very trusting and one of her major character features seemingly associated with her illness was her over-generosity.’