Nurse's delight after she's welcomed back at trans row hospital

NURSE Jennifer Melle beamed and punched the air as she returned to work at the hospital where she says she was treated like a “criminal” for misgendering a paedophile patient.

- BY GILES SHELDRICK Chief Reporter

Ms Melle, 41, was hugged by colleagues as she arrived at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, after the NHS U-turned and said it would take no further action against her.

Arriving for her first shift since being reinstated last month, she said: “I have mixed emotions but I thank God for the victory. The silence is finished.”

The Ugandan-born Christian nurse has vowed to take Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust to a tribunal claiming harassment, discrimination, victimisation and breaches of freedom of thought, conscience and religion. She faces two outstanding Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness-to-practise probes over “misgendering” the trans sex offender.