A man who stole a genuine nurse’s identity to work in care homes across the country has been jailed.

Ashton Guramatunhu, 46, from Dudley, registered with a nursing agency in Warrington using the identity of a nurse to get employment, Liverpool Crown Court heard.

Between January 1, 2015, and April 5, 2019, he went on to work at six nursing homes in the northeast of England.

Through his fraudulent activity, Guramatunhu earned an estimated total of £172,920.

Guramatunhu’s story unravelled in January 2019, when the Nursing and Midwifery Council contacted the real nurse whose identity he had stolen, regarding his fitness to practise at a care home where he had never even worked.

In 2020, the case was passed to Cheshire Police after it was established that Guramatunhu was registered to an a

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