TWO managers who worked at Winterbourne View during the 2011 abuse scandal have been struck off the nursing register.

Ajmal Hussein Fazarally and Peter Harrison lost their jobs after a BBC Panorama documentary uncovered extensive abuse at the now-closed Winterbourne View hospital in Hambrook.

The footage, filmed by an undercover reporter, showed nurses and support workers abusing and mistreating vulnerable Winterbourne View patients.

Since then, both Mr Fazarally and Mr Harrison have been removed from the nursing register for misconduct, following a hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s conduct and competence committee in early July.

Fazarally had been employed as the Hospital Manager from January 2010 until the unit’s closure in June 2011.

He faced a variety of misconduct charges, including not reporting an incident in which a patient received a split eyebrow and failing to complete risk assessments.

Although Mr Fazarally denied allegations against him in a document signed in September 2016, he was ultimately found to have failed to “demonstrate and deliver safe nursing care”.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council panel found that he had a “complete disregard” for patient care, and placed many patients at “serious and unwarranted risk of harm”.

Peter Harrison was regional operations manager for Castlebeck, the firm which ran the hospital from 2008 until June 2012.

He faced a number of misconduct charges, including failing to ensure that patients were protected from verbal and physical abuse.

The panel found that his misconduct represented a “failure” to safeguard vulnerable patients.

They noted that he acted in a way that could have “resulted in harm” and often “breached the trust” expected of him as a registered nurse.

Both Mr Harrison and Mr Fazarally will be unable to be put back on the nursing register for at least five years.