A Taranaki nurse who spent 10 years in a US prison for aggravated robbery – then lied about it to the New Zealand Nursing Council – has had his practising licence cancelled. New Plymouth nurse James Middlebrook concealed his past criminal history – which also included holding up a pharmacy for narcotics – when he applied for nursing registration in New Zealand in 2013. He was allowed to practise for 10 months before the council discovered his criminal file and suspended him.
