Nursing and Midwifery Council determination — substantive hearing
NMC panel strikes off nurse Sean Kelly after child sex offence convictions
The Nursing and Midwifery Council's Fitness to Practise Committee has struck nurse Sean Brian Patrick Kelly off the register following his conviction for attempting to send sexual communications to a child and making an indecent photograph of a child.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 23 April 2026 · Updated 11 July 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Sean Brian Patrick Kelly, nurse (Nursing and Midwifery Council 23B1441E).
Decision date: 23 April 2026 · Hearing started 23 April 2026
In plain English
The NMC's Fitness to Practise Committee found that Sean Brian Patrick Kelly's fitness to practise was impaired after his conviction at Worthing Magistrates' Court for attempting to send sexual communications to a child and for making an indecent photograph of a child. The panel accepted a consensual panel determination and imposed a striking-off order, removing him from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension order to cover any appeal period.
Charges
That, on 4 March 2025 at Worthing Magistrates' Court, he was convicted of: (a) between 3 January 2024 and 6 January 2024, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, intentionally attempting to communicate sexually with a person under 16 whom he did not reasonably believe to be 16 or over, namely sending images of an erect penis and discussing sexual acts, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981; and (b) on 11 December 2023, making an indecent photograph, namely a Category A image, of a child, contrary to sections 1(1)(a) and 6 of the Protection of Children Act 1978.
Findings
The charges were found proved by way of Mr Kelly's admissions in a signed provisional Consensual Panel Determination agreement, which the panel accepted. The panel found his fitness to practise currently impaired by reason of his convictions, on both public protection and public interest grounds, finding his actions breached fundamental tenets of the profession and were fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Mr Kelly's admission to the facts.
Aggravating factors
Absence of or limited insight; premeditated behaviour; predatory behaviour.
Source
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