A CARE home nurse accused of making lewd and vile comments in front of residents will have to wait until July to learn her fate. Laura Anne Gilmour was sacked from her position at Bupa-run Norwood care home just two months after landing the job.

She is accused of comparing food served to parents to bodily fluids and excrement in a series of grotesque remarks, and accusing co-workers of giving sexual favours to bosses at the Victoria Road facility.

At a hearing held by the Nursing and Midwifery Council in Edinburgh last week, a panel heard from witnesses including a written statement from a resident of the Victoria Road facility.

Mrs Gilmour had requested the hearing be held in private, however the panel rejected this saying that public interest overruled the defendant's interests in this case.

Mrs Gilmour also made no attempt to appear at the hearing or be represented.

Although she was sacked in 2010 the charges hanging over her have only recently been made public.

The charges include the allegation that she compared a Strawberry Gateau to bodily fluids.

She is also accused of telling a colleague that a senior carer at the centre only received her job by performing oral sex on a superior.

The language used in a third alleged remark is too obscene to print as stated in the charges but it alleges she compared a plate of sausages to faeces.

Ms Gilmour is also accused of incorrectly administering medical fluids to a resident with no written authorisation from a GP and that had been prescribed to another resident in the home, and then failed to document it.

The case was finished part heard as it was not expected that all the information could be heard in one sitting.

It was adjourned until July, allowing Mrs Gilmour another chance to be represented.