A MENTAL health nurse who was convicted of breaking his partner's arm has been struck off.

Gavin Conhye, aged 32, was sentenced to 16 months in prison suspended for two years after he pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to the woman at their Bury home on April 29, 2016.

At a hearing of the Nursing and Midwifery Council(NMC), Conhye who was had been employed as a community psychiatric nurse by Greater Manchester West Mental Health Foundation Trust, was struck off for 18 months.

At his original trial last August at Bolton Crown Court, Conhye, who is a martial arts expert and a qualified cage fighter, pleaded to being in possession of a knife which he was given a three months suspended prison sentence.

He was only spared jail after his partner pleaded with the judge not to lock him up.

The NMC heard that on the day of the attack Conhye had been to a funeral and upon his return he had a argument with his partner.

He left the house and returned drunk and his partner saw he was texting his ex-wife. His partner took the phone off him to look at what he had been saying. Conhye spun her round and pushed her back and she fell to the floor hitting her head.

A struggle ensued and he again dropped her onto the floor banging her head before taking her arm and dropping all his weight onto it causing it to break. His partner managed to escape and when arrested by police he was in possession of a lock knife.

The NMC said that by reason of his conviction Conhye has brought his profession into disrepute and breached a fundamental tenet of the nursing profession.

The council added: "We gave very serious consideration to whether a suspension order could indeed adequately meet the wider public interest requirements of maintaining public confidence and declaring and upholding proper standards.

"Your conviction was for a particularly abhorrent assault involving a number of aggravating features. It was for an offence the public would consider truly appalling.

"The personal mitigation, which appears to have led the judge not to impose an immediate custodial sentence, is much less relevant in the consideration that this panel must give to the effect of your conviction in relation to the public interest."

At the original trial Conhye was also sentenced to undertake 150 hours unpaid work.