Revenge Of Job Loss Nurse As Fleetwood Care Home Damaged

A nurse has admitted that she deliberately rammed her camper van into the front of a nursing home causing £26,000 worth of damage the day after being made redundant from her job there.

Preston Crown Court heard that Josephine Greenan rang to tell police to get all the patients and staff out of the Fairhaven Home, Laidleys Walk, Fleetwood.

In an act of vengeance she drove through the porch area, causing part of a wall to collapse. She also hit an outer wall and admitted she would have caused further damage, if the van had not broken down.

Greenan, 56, of Ashfield Road, Thornton Cleveleys, has had a ten-month jail sentence suspended for 18 months.

She has also been placed on a four-month curfew and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work.

She had pleaded guilty to criminal damage, being reckless where the lives of residents would be endangered and drink driving.

She had worked at the nursing home for five years before being made redundant last May.

The 18 residents and two members of staff were all asleep at the time of the incident.

Kevin Donnelly, defending, said it was a public expression of her anger and a desire for vengeance over how she perceived she had been treated.

At the time she was in a very troubled state of mind, both emotionally and psychologically.

Judge Christopher Cornwall described it as a terrible loss of self control and a dreadful act of vengeance.

The owner of the nursing home was unavailable for comment.