A "mean" nurse who helped himself to £6,500 belonging to an elderly dementia patient in his care has been jailed.

Rexy Reyes took the victim's bank card from a locker he had the key to and then "maxed out" what he could withdraw from her account on 22 consecutive days, Nottingham Crown Court heard. The 52-year-old, who worked at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, was found guilty of two counts of theft following a three-day trial .

He was jailed for 18 months. In a victim impact statement read in court, the woman's nephew said he has "lost confidence" in the health system as a result of the crime. The patient, who was in her 70s, has now died, the court was told.

Jailing Reyes, Judge James Sampson said: "This was a mean offence which was motivated by greed and which took place ove

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