A NURSE who killed a colleague's teenage son in a hit-and-run accident has been thrown out of the profession. Heather Butler, 68, killed 15-year-old Sam Brown when she drove to work while drunk in September 2012.
The former nurse, who worked at The Old School Yard Nursing Home, in Gilberdyke, has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, so can no longer practise medicine.
After clipping the back of Sam's bike and sending him sprawling to the side of the road, Butler continued driving more than 200m with the bike stuck to the front of her Audi A4. She stopped to remove it but then continued her drive to work.
She was sentenced to five years and four months in prison in April, after pleading guilty to causing death while driving under the influence of alcohol.
