The prison nurse who funded designer clothes, jewellery and Audi through drug-boss boyfriend
01.03.2024 - 07:53
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A nurse has been struck off from the medical profession after she funded a lavish lifestyle through her drug-boss boyfriend.
Georgia Harkness met drug-dealer Ashley Blackett in prison while he was serving time and she worked as a prison nurse, the Liverpool Echo reports. The 27-year-old, the daughter of former Liverpool footballer Steve Harkness, helped Blackett continue to run his criminal empire while he was in prison.
They had a baby together and it was arranged for cash to be sent from him for designer clothes, jewellery and an Audi A5. After being convicted almost 12 months ago, the former Broadgreen hospital nurse has now been barred from working in the medical sector.
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Manchester Crown Court was told last March how Blackett arranged for money to be sent to Harkness so she could splash out on lavish items. She tried to hide the extent of her involvement by refusing to tell police her phone's PIN, but they eventually cracked the device and discovered incriminating material.
Harkness pleaded guilty to possessing criminal property, transferring criminal property, possession with intent to supply testosterone, a class C drug, and failing to comply with a section 49 by not telling police the PIN number to her mobile phone. She avoided jail after a judge said she had no previous convictions. She was sentenced to two years, suspended for 24 months.
She will now no longer be allowed to return to her career as a nurse, following sanction from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). A fitness to practise hearing was held in Harkness' absence earlier this month to consider her case.
Documents released from the session said the former nurse, from St Helens, had been