A nurse who refused to call an ambulance for a dementia-ridden OAP who snapped her neck has been struck off.

Faustina Asibey told the family of an 88-year-old's woman not to summon paramedics to Queens Court Nursing Home in Buckhurst Hill.

Having already failed to alert the woman's daughters of her serious condition on September 16, 2011, Ms Asibey then warned them against calling for medical help once they had found out.

The nurse shouted at the frail pensioner's daughters: "Don't you dare call an ambulance".

Ms Asibey, from East London, was finally struck off by the General Medical Council over the episode after six previous review hearings.

Sitting in London, the panel heard how the nurse failed to help paramedics when they eventually turned up.

Asibey, who was working as a nurse for at least three years after the incident, was cleared of refusing to let the ambulance service through the front door.

But panel chairwoman Elizabeth Burnley said Asibey had expressed no remorse.

She told her: "You have not provided a recent written reflection, nor have you provided any references from colleagues who could speak to your practice as a health care worker.

"When asked what you would like the outcome of this hearing to be you replied: 'I wish you could get a placement for me'."

When weighing up whether to take action or not, the panel concluded that allowing Ms Asibey to continue her work would put the public at risk.

During a previous hearing in 2014 the questioned the former care worker's quality of evidence.

At the time the panel remarked: "The panel found your evidence to be confusing, at times incoherent, inconsistent in some areas and often not succinct.

"The panel found inconsistencies between your evidence to the investigation meeting with your employers on September 23 2011 and your live evidence.

"For example, you told the investigation meeting that the ambulance crew ignored you, but in your live evidence claimed that you briefed them.

"You also contradicted yourself in live evidence."

In the most recent hearing on October 4, the panel concluded little progress had been made in the course of the six hearings, and that Ms Asibey should be struck off for putting "a patient at unwarranted risk of harm" and bringing "the nursing profession into disrepute".

Queens Court Nursing Home was contacted for comment.