The behaviour of Left-wing activists in the NHS towards black Christian nurse Jennifer Melle shows how much they resent the free press for shining a light on their misdeeds.
She remains suspended from work by the NHS after the Mail on Sunday broke the story in March of her treatment last May by Epsom and St Helier University Hospital Trust. Kevin O’Sullivan recently did a superb interview with her on TalkTV, in which she described an ordeal that should never have trespassed beyond the realm of dystopian fiction.
Because of her insistence on calling a six-foot transgender paedophile “Mr” – and despite him lunging at her and subjecting her to racialist abuse – she was accused of “not respecting the patient’s preferred identity” and told her actions had “fallen short of the Trust’s value of Respect”.
Summoned to a disciplinary hearing last October, she was given a final written warning and has been referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
According to Christian Concern, whose legal arm is representing her: “She was moved to another ward and effectively demoted. Her name was wiped off the internal system, making it difficult to apply for extra shifts at the hospital.”
Then, in April, Christian Concern reported that Miss Melle had been suspended by the NHS for telling her story.
This week, Jennifer was running a clinic with patients waiting for consultation with a doctor when, without warning, she was pulled into an ‘informal’ meeting and told that she had to meet with the Chief Nurse the following morning at 9am.
Accompanied by a Darlington Nursing Union representative, Jennifer met with the Chief Nurse and another member of staff in a Portakabin at the back of the hospital.
Lasting only five minutes, Jennifer was told there had been a “potential data breach” after her story was shared in the media, which could amount to “gross misconduct”.
Jennifer was told she would be suspended on full pay and would be banned from the hospital premises.
Pushed on what the grounds for suspension were for a nurse with an unblemished record, the Chief Nurse refused to state the specifics of the allegations pending a full investigation.
Told to collect her belongings, Jennifer was then escorted from the premises in tears.
Following her suspension, Miss Melle said:
Ever since I expressed my Christian beliefs under extreme pressure, I have been a marked woman. Despite being the one placed at risk, I am the one being punished. I have been made to feel like a criminal.
The message I have received throughout this investigation is clear: I am expected to tolerate extreme racism, deny biological reality and suppress my deeply held Christian beliefs – all in the name of ‘inclusivity’ and protecting falsehoods.
I am trusting in Jesus to guide me through this. I must take a stand. I genuinely worry about how many other NHS workers are silently enduring similar injustices.
To her credit, Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch said after Miss Melle’s suspension:
She has my full support. It’s time the Government pulls its finger out and intervenes to make it clear no one should be punished at work for stating biological reality to paedophiles.
Her legal battle for full reinstatement continues and will hopefully be boosted by the Supreme Court ruling in April that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.
The media did a solid job here of shining the light of public scrutiny in the faces of the Leftist activists in charge of the NHS trust. Imagine what they would have got away with without the free press that they plainly so deeply despise.
Julian Mann, a former Church of England vicar, is an evangelical journalist based in Lancashire.
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