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Dentist struck off by GDC for sexually assaulting nurses

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A disciplinary panel heard he repeatedly targeted a nurse and sexually assaulted her in 1990s, whilst a second dental nurse said she was touched inappropriately by McCann in 2015.

The committee was told how McCann deliberately prolonged patients' treatment so he could assault the first victim – a dental nurse known only as Witness A – in the surgery and make comments about her figure.

She told the committee she would try to 'close her legs', 'clam up' and 'move away' from McCann, based in Northern Ireland, as a result of his behaviour, and even resorted to wearing her father’s cardigan to try and hide her body.

Witness A told the committee, “There was one incident when [McCann] came into the practice happily at Christmas time with bonuses and gave me a long kiss. It was in the cloakroom when I was about to leave for Christmas, and it was just me there.

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